Vatican “on the brink of Bankruptcy” due to dramatic decline in donations

I'm going to need a really, /really/ small violin.

Maybe Elon Musk will suddenly get religion and bail them out.

Best news I’ve heard in a while

Looks like indulgences are back on the menu, boys!

I guess those tithes just aren't paying.

Somebody should lunch an indulgence-based cryptocoin. Buy your way to paradise today!

Maybe they can save some money by protecting fewer pedos?

Too busy donating to Trump

Except they have billions in stolen art and could liquidate it at any point. If not trillions, actually.

Nobody knows exactly what Vatican has but Porphyry Basin in the Vatican Museum is estimated to be worth 2$ billion alone (it was commissioned by Emperor Nero).

Vatican could literally end the world hunger with their treasure hoard.

Can all the nations they stole artifacts and trinkets from get them back when they declare bankruptcy? /s

lol

Oh no...

Sell your fucking chair, you clown.

I am an agnostic so my opinion might not be worth anything to Christians (or Catholics specifically), but I don't really see the point in organized church structures. If you believe in God, support his ideals, why do you need to go to church anyway, or at least why would you want your local church support some big hierarchy (often with controversial opinions or actions) for your money?

Nice

Thoughts and prayers!

Gods plan

Aww geez, our 1500 year old grift isn’t working as well as it used to, sad!

Ummmm... Fuck them?

Good

Just pray. If your God is the creator of the universe, it's pretty likely he can handle the situation once you let him know.

What little concessions they made to progressives was far too little too late while former popes sided with child abusers and rapists.

Time to start selling Indulgences again.

"Man who lives in a golden palace complains about money troubles. "

Just sell some real estate…. They’ll be fine.

Anyone think this is some independently verified fact?

THEY’RE CLAIMING THIS TO GET OUT OF PAYING ALL THE LAWSUITS they get because of all the r4pe & 4bus3 of little children

Well it's a good thing they have all that priceless art they can sell...

Of course people are blaming him being too accepting of trans people, his view of "let them survive but they're sinners unwelcome to the eucharist" is unfortunately far too progressive for some.

Fortunately the church of Jesus of Nazareth will prioritize profit over peace and love

What? BS.

Have they tried institutionally raping children and covering it up for decades if not centuries?

Oh, they have... Darn.

Maybe donating and praying to your favorite imaginary sky buddy doesn't actually solve anything.

Are you sure it's not because you've had to pay billions of dollars in settlements for priests raping children?

Are you sure that's not why?

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.

Sell some of that gold they've bought and or stolen in the last millenia or two.

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

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

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

Good

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.”

Thoughts and prayers.

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

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

Perhaps they should sell off some of the tons and tons of gold stuff they have.

Good riddance to bad garbage.

Start selling off your nazi gold.

Paying out legal claims and bribes from all the sexual abuse scandals are not cheap.

I'm sure if they switched from molesting kids they could make some money jerking off grown men

Irish Star is as reliable as Alex Jones.

The Catholic Church remains one of the world's wealthiest organizations.

good, time to disband that pedo-clown organisation

Just ask god for money? I mean, isn't it omnisicent and omnipotent?

One the planets largest landlords going bankrupt? I imagine they can cover the spread and still dress like trans-wizards until the lord returns.

Oh, no. Guess they'll have to sell some of those golden trinkets they have

Thoughts and prayers.

Wait, nope, fresh out.

It's like watching the country collapse, i guess.

Is the Vatican for sale?

Have they tried NOT having Sex with Kids?

• LET
• THEM
• EAT
• CAKE

They might need to auction off one of those reptilian skeletons they have in the secret basement.

Nawww poor little pedophiles.

lol

But God needs more money! C'mon everybody chip in, he needs his moneeeey!

I wonder how that can be. The Catholic Church owns real estate in almost every city in Europe, usually several buildings in larger cities, often in prime locations. Especially since these properties are only a fraction of the church's financial assets, the rental income alone should be enough to finance the church for all eternity.

Bootstraps bitches. Pull em up!

I wish.

Doubt they’ll even have to sell a diocese.

Bullshit.

I'm sure God will save them .... by wiring them a few billion dollars

something about rich man in the kingdom of heaven right?

Maybe they can set up a loops server and just do remote mass shorts? They'll have to jump for jebus with different dresses.

Pfffft... Yeah right.

Oh no. Well anyways

Oh, they are opting for "The Big Lie".

IIRC s friend of theirs coined the expression too!

Oh, pedo funding ran out. Now pedos come to various dictatorships asking for money. Say, Azerbaijan, that'd be those guys who have demolished probably more Christian heritage than ISIS.

BTW, my paternal line is Armenian Catholic from Khodorchur of Dayq province, so I do feel bad about them falling so low, but really nothing one can fix. Just let that thing die.

And it has nothing to do with the afghan opium money they used to launder, but now no longer exists after taliban kicked the US out