Right. And no one has to listen to you. We're not put out in the wilderness as sheep among the wolves, we're always welcome in the Fold, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church shows us the fence around the Fold, and we can be inside or out, but there is a fence, and the Shepherd has not left us alone.
And they're one of the richest churches too. They can do a whole lot more! I've heard the there are beggars outside the Vatican. Open the doors and bring them in.
That's because the local Catholics were either not numerous, or not generous. And I strongly suspect the former over the latter.
You need to read a Bible and not the catechism.
They had plenty, this was in Ireland. The church had plenty of money!
More than three times through.
Oh well that's good, so where does it say in the Bible that Mary is the mother of God?
This was in Ireland? So what? There are some very, very poor parishes in Ireland.
They weren't poor niliho. I'm sure they could help the people more than that. It has also happened here where I live, and they are definitely far from poor!
You're non-Trin, you're not going to care. But if you can sympathize with a Trinitarian, Luke 1:43 (KJV) is good enough for me. It's just logical otherwise, almost linguistic, semantic. But regardless, the Church teaches to pray, and to pray the rosary, and that's good enough for me.
How do you know the finances of any Catholic parish, let alone one in particular? How are you making your judgment? It sounds like a convenient judgment; one you could make prejudicially without substantiating evidence, is this the case? Are you mostly just surmising? Why would the Church hoard money? Priests know they're not signing up for the luxury lifestyle. Do you think that secretly, really rich people are running the Catholic Church? Because I can assure you that is fake.
Are they one of the richest churches in the world or not?
Are "they" or are "they" not, closing parishes and rapidly? And in need of greater interest in the priesthood? And living in a world facing mountainous challenges and problems?
Then they should go to the top for help!
What's your point with the link? The assets are probably over 90% real estate, which would be the land upon which the Church's over-200-hundred-thousand churches are built. You got a problem with that?
They will have plenty within their banks nihilo, Jesus didn't build up in this world, and worldly temples meant nothing to him, when the disciples were in awe at the temple, Jesus said this
