• @Hiro8811@lemmy.world
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    113 minutes ago

    Could this really be? After nearly two thousands years of Catholic Church they are finally brought to their knees.

  • @eletes@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hour ago

    Even if this is true, 2025 is a jubilee year. There will be so many pilgrims to the Vatican and donations would skyrocket

  • @some_guy
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    276 hours ago

    Probably the best news I’ve read so far today.

  • jollyroberts
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    609 hours ago

    Bullshit. They own more land than damn near any other entity on the planet. The whole celibacy thing was so the priest could not take the church owning and give them to non-church kids.

    Hurting for money? Sell some land. Then pay for the abuse lawsuits some more.

  • @Marthirial@lemmy.world
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    3110 hours ago

    Are these bastards really thinking we are going to believe their mafia like enterprise is supported by charitable donations?

  • @TingoTenga@lemmy.world
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    8615 hours ago

    Good for them, I guess?

    "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

    • @Devorlon@lemmy.zip
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      1412 hours ago

      But, but The eye of a needle was a market with a small gate and if you only had a reasonable load on your camels then they could pass through so it’s actually ok for rich people to exist /s

      • @Blu@sopuli.xyz
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        That cope from Conservative Christians™️ is always funny. Similar statements show up in the Talmud. A large animal passing through the eye of a needle was a common idiom in Jewish culture at the time to demonstrate impossibility.

        • @theangryseal@lemmy.world
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          58 hours ago

          I wish they had just said, “look bro, I don’t even need an idiom. I’m just going to tell you. If you’re rich, you’re going to Hell. You can’t exploit people and hoard resources and be in God’s good graces at the same time. Just being rich means that you’re ok walking by misery and not helping. Bro, you can’t have it like that.”

    • qyron
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      1914 hours ago

      I was expecting this exact quote. Never fails to put a smile on my face.

  • @ExtremeDullard
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    4113 hours ago

    Those grifters have had a good run for two millenia. As scams go, I’d say it was pretty successful - and still is, sadly.