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H.Paul Jeffers

Dark Mysteries of the Vatican

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  • mariafedotovskikhhas quoted6 years ago
    but it also operates like a worldwide corporation
  • mariafedotovskikhhas quoted6 years ago
    were accused of trying to sell works of art falsely attributed to artists such as Michelangelo, Guercino and Giambologna, to art institutions such as the Metropolitan
  • mariafedotovskikhhas quoted6 years ago
    Vatican is both a city and a state
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    “If the Vatican sold all its artworks, they would bring in hundreds of millions of dollars-but only once.
  • mariafedotovskikhhas quoted6 years ago
    It has been calculated that “it costs about $250 million a year to operate the Vatican
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    No nation of Catholics gives more than Americans.
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    For 2004, that total came to $89 million. Of this amount, roughly $27.2 million came from individual dioceses under the terms of canon 1271 of the Code of Canon Law, which obligated dioceses to contribute to the financial support of the Holy See. This means that the 2,883 ecclesiastical jurisdictions in the world gave an average of $10,000 each in 2004…
  • mariafedotovskikhhas quoted6 years ago
    The money comes from…contributions from bishops’ conferences, dioceses, religious orders, individual lay donors, and ‘other entities.’
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    . Peter’s Basilica, are ornamented with gold, silver, precious stones, and the finest marble.
  • mariafedotovskikhhas quoted6 years ago
    major damage suffered by a work of art in St. Peter’s since a German broke two fingers off the statue of a kneeling Pope Pius VI in 1970.
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