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Poor Francis Is Running Out of Money

Francis’ Vatican ran in 2018 a record deficit: 70 million on a budget of 300 million euro. The reasons: Francis messed up the Vatican’s financial reform, and donations are drying up because Catholic …More
Francis’ Vatican ran in 2018 a record deficit: 70 million on a budget of 300 million euro.
The reasons: Francis messed up the Vatican’s financial reform, and donations are drying up because Catholic donors refuse to pay for his anti-Catholic adventures.
A populist Francis wants to hire “more laypeople” but this comes with a price: The salaries of some "laypeople" reach 15,000 euros a month. The Vatican has about 5,000 employees.
To save a little money, Sunday overtime of two Vatican lift operators was cut, and Francis got stuck in the elevator without anybody to rescue him.
A cardinal criticized Francis’ [populist] decision to prohibit the sale of cigarettes which deprived the Vatican of a safe source of income. Only: “Cigars are still sold because someone high up is interested in them," he told IlGiornale.it (September 20).
On September 20, the Vatican’s liberal bankrupts held an emergency meeting.
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That might be a good thing. The Vatican would get a hefty piece of change for that grotesque, blasphemous "Resurrection" sculpture in the Paul VI Audience Hall. Wiki tells me it's 80 metric tons of bronze/ copper. There's some serious salvage value in that much scrap metal.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Resurrection_(Fazzini)More
That might be a good thing. The Vatican would get a hefty piece of change for that grotesque, blasphemous "Resurrection" sculpture in the Paul VI Audience Hall. Wiki tells me it's 80 metric tons of bronze/ copper. There's some serious salvage value in that much scrap metal.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Resurrection_(Fazzini)