Financial corruption of the RCC

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So my question didn’t really have anything to do with the physical possessions of the Church in forms of ornaments, paintings, buildings, vestments etc. But look at this…

dailypaul.com/107469/is-the-catholic-church-the-dominant-financial-force-in-the-world

How true is this info?

The City of Chicago is wealthier than many nations on earth - including Vatican City. And Chicago has the capital, material, and people to obliterate Vatican City if the two cities ever went to war.

The Pope draws no salary - usually anyways - but like the mayors of Sao Paulo and New York he ultimately has responsibility for the economy and wealth of his city. President Obama has responsibility for the U.S. economy but that does not mean all it’s trillions of wealth is sitting in his pants pocket and personal bank account.

The Catholic Church exhibits what in the sciences we call emergence. That is to say the evolution of something from small and simple origins into something larger and more complex. Many systems exhibit this from the founding and growth of cities to the evolutionary development of the human body - actually all life on earth exhibits emergence from its genesis.

So, what I’m say is this: the wealth, sophistication, growth and development of the Catholic Church evidences its goodness. In my opinion at least. At minimum it evidences it is a stellar organization or institution worth its salt. If it remained hill billy and financially broke after 2,000 years I’d think it an institution full of less than impressible people.

A number of universities have invested their money in gold, by the way. Nothing necessarily wrong in that.

Also, the United States disproportionately consumes most the earths resources. Can we infer from that that the United States and our well fed people are “The Great Satan”?