Vatican's Caritas outraged at 'reckless' USAID cuts, says millions will die, others left in poverty
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They do use their liquid assets for that, but not selling the illiquid ones like art and real estate. I think it'd be a shame to turn cathedrals into shopping malls, but maybe it's worth putting the money to good use.
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Bergoglio brown?
I don't know his actual ethnicity, but to a lot of European Catholics anyone from South America is brown at least by association. It was kinda a big deal that he was the first Pope from the southern hemisphere.
criticism against him is not an exclusive of US fundamentalists.
I didn't claim it was?
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To be fair, it was literally just to see the art. My family is Jewish but my parents absolutely loved art and instilled a love of art in me very early on.
Fun story- my dad, much like me, had very stereotypical Jewish features- the big, hooked nose, the curly hair, that sort of thing. So right outside the Vatican, we're looking at a souvenir stand, and the man behind the stand says to my father, in Yiddish, "what's a nice Jewish boy like you doing in a place like this?" My dad replies back, also in Yiddish (this is all second-hand, I don't know any Yiddish), "what's a nice Jewish boy like you doing in a place like this?" And he said, "a man's got to make a living!"
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So many assholes, it's hard to keep up with 'em.
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yeah for sure, thats what I meant when I typed "social gain"
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Enabling is as bad as comitting
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hah! fun.
yes, I find the christians are pretty good at taking things over. so it makes sense they inserted themselves into the fiestas to control them.
like the
winter solsticejesus' birthday
summer solsticethe feast of st jean the babtist,
spring equinoxjesus' resurrection,
samhain/harvestall hallowed's eve,
birthbaptism,
lovechurch wedding,
deathfuneral mass,
