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Catholic Church and Pope Francis: Religious institutions are exempted from nonprofit disclosure rules, so nobody knows how rich they really are. - Slate Magazine

246 words by attila written on 2013–04–08, last edit: 2013–04–08, tags: banks, capitalism, church, empire, finance, systemPrevious post: ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ to grant biotech industry total immunity over GM crops?Next post: Nuclear Orientalism - Opinion - Al Jazeera English


Catholic Church and Pope Francis: Religious institutions are exempted from nonprofit disclosure rules, so nobody knows how rich they really are. - Slate Magazine.

{–Vow of poverty my ass.–}

Roni pointed out that my first attempt at flippant commentary falls on its face because catholic priests do not take a vow of poverty. The Jesuits do. The Jesuits do a lot of things, apparently, but they have had at times a shaky relationship with the catholic church and there are a lot of squirrelly little orders and clusters of them and other groups like them and they all have had different oaths at different times.

Yeah, wow, way more complicated a subject than I first thought. Check out this apparently antiquated oath that used to be used by the Jesuits and perhaps others maybe as recently as the early 1970’s? Maybe not? Maybe it’s not legitimate at all but WOW check out some of the riders in that baby… you’re better off joining the mob. I mean they ARE joining the mob. Or they were.

No, they are. Of course they are. It’s probably not so much administering an oath now as taking a DNA sample getting chipped. Nobody does oaths any more - too many words. Nobody likes words.

Alright so the catholics are richer than god and apparently that’s fine with everyone. There’s a joke in there somewhere but I officially refuse to look for it any more.


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