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Why is the "Church of the Poor" secretly amassing tens/hundreds of billions of dollars?
With the steady flood of revelations about homopredation by the bishops and clergy and the ensuing cover-up, there is another enormous story that is almost entirely being ignored. That story is this: Why is the supposed "Church of the poor" secretly amassing tens, even hundreds, of billions of dollars?
When Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope almost nine years ago, the almost immediate posturing of the Vatican was the need for the Church to be humble, obedient, transparent, open to dialogue and poor.
But as Church Militant is quietly unearthing, the exact opposite is actually occurring. There appears to be an unprecedented money grab going on all over the Church, and it seems to be centered inside the Vatican itself, the very heart of the pretended "Church of the poor."
Through ongoing practices of setting up secretly owned international companies, failing to disclose them and cutting deals with other companies to shift billions of dollars around the world, the Vatican may actually be drowning in cash. These multiple and multinational schemes may sometimes be illegal, frequently unethical, more usually immoral and always questionable. The Vatican's status as its own country affords it ample opportunity to skirt international financial safeguards against corruption and largely go undetected, flying under the radar of accountability.
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> > **Why is the "Church of the Poor" secretly amassing tens/hundreds of billions of dollars?**
> > With the steady flood of revelations about homopredation by the bishops and clergy and the ensuing cover-up, there is another enormous story that is almost entirely being ignored. That story is this: Why is the supposed "Church of the poor" secretly amassing tens, even hundreds, of billions of dollars?
> > When Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope almost nine years ago, the almost immediate posturing of the Vatican was the need for the Church to be humble, obedient, transparent, open to dialogue and poor.
> > But as Church Militant is quietly unearthing, the exact opposite is actually occurring. There appears to be an unprecedented money grab going on all over the Church, and it seems to be centered inside the Vatican itself, the very heart of the pretended "Church of the poor."
> > Through ongoing practices of setting up secretly owned international companies, failing to disclose them and cutting deals with other companies to shift billions of dollars around the world, the Vatican may actually be drowning in cash. These multiple and multinational schemes may sometimes be illegal, frequently unethical, more usually immoral and always questionable. The Vatican's status as its own country affords it ample opportunity to skirt international financial safeguards against corruption and largely go undetected, flying under the radar of accountability.
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