Why doesn't the Roman catholic religion (ie the pope) use the wealth that is stored in the Vatican to help

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those less fortunate. The ammount thay are Hoarding and spending on themselves is a SIN. I thought that being a Christian involved helping people as you would like to be helped if you were in financial difficulties. And what about those people in the world with nothing. The wealth being withheld from these people would be more than enough to give these people a good chance at being able to start, at minimum, subsistance farming. WHY DON'T THEY HELP??????

Answer 1

The Catholic Church and all the associated Catholic prelatures and affiliated groups spend more money on more humanitarian aid than any other organization, anywhere, including the U.S. government.

It takes a strong financial base to get anything done in this world.

If all the assests of the church were exhausted, there would be no resources available to continue all the work that's presently being accomplished.

I suggest you start your own religion and fund your own charities before you attempt to criticize the one that literally invented the concept, and successfully made it a standard component of all western culture.

The most notable guy to come up with a suggestion similar to yours was Judas.

Hopefully, you've already spent your last dollar helping the poor. If not, consider changing your name!

Answer 2

You would be surprised at how much they help then. Their spending on the poor is more than any other group of people in the world. When the Palestinians were expelled from Israel, it was Rome that fed, clothed and sheltered them. When Stalin was starving its own people, it was the Catholic Church that raised the money to buy food. The Church is very active in building a better world, so much so that the Vatican until quite recently was in deep financial distress. As it refuses to reduce its spending on the poor, it requires greater and greater injections of money to keep up with inflation. Most of the Catholic Church is in a financially rocky position as is most of the world.

To give you an example, and you could help too by the way, Our Mother of Mercy Hospital in Zerqa, in Jordan, is short $245,000 this year. It serves mostly mothers and children and most of them Palestinian. It sees 30,000 patients each year. If you can send that money, it will support 1453 estimated surgeries and supporting medicines this year. It is okay if you can only come up with $10 or $20 but if you own your home free and clear and wouldn't mind mortgaging it to pay for the poor, you might be able to do most of it.

They have a US address:

CNEWA
1011 First Avenue, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10022-4195

note on the check where it is to be directed as they do a lot of work, not just in Amman.

Another thing you might not understand is that the Catholic Church isn't a single organization but literally thousands of federated organizations. The Pope has very little authority inside the Church and no authority to tell others what to do with their money. Protestants see the Catholic Church as a large monolithic body but it is closer in concept to the structure Baptists use than most other Protestant bodies. Power generally sits at the bottom of the Church, not the top. If the Catholic Church were a single organization it could probably direct resources better, but then it would lose its character of a family bound together by filial love.

Answer 3

The Church is "prosperous" because it truly is spent numerous centuries gathering money that become donated, willed, given freely, and entrusted to it. could the Church seem lavish? for sure no longer. yet did you comprehend the way a lot the Church donates each three hundred and sixty 5 days? did you comprehend the way a lot of that money is used to help the undesirable and destitute? did you comprehend the way a lot the Church needs to have the capacity to help it truly is officiants? Or how a lot it takes to honestly guard the Vatican? Even humanitarian amenities could be funded. The Church doesn't have that skill if it did no longer have the funds. The Pope as a representative of ST. PETER is oftentimes dressed modestly, yet why could he seem destitute? fantastically even as he's honestly out doing and assisting humanitarian works or addressing the international? As undesirable as you imagine it really is, lately, it really is custom besides as putting on proper dresses to a international it really is already very severe. no be counted what the Church does, no be counted what the Pope does, there'll be grievance. I honestly have more effective topics with the numerous doctrines positioned forth by way of the numerous previous Popes (and likely, the present Pope too) which i imagine is a techniques more effective significant than the meant wealth of the Church. i imagine it really is a techniques more effective significant to work out the best that the Church and the Pope honestly accomplish, and criticize to artwork for the more effective useful for humanity. no longer basically the money. you are able to please the numerous human beings the numerous time, yet no longer each of the human beings each of the time.

Answer 4

It's because that religion is all about MONEY - that's why! Where do you think the pope and all his cronies get their fancy robes from? The pope's gold ring? It comes from blind, gullible people that feed that money-making empire. The priests usually tell (at least back when my parents were RCs) how much everyone should give. Well, why do you think they do? Because they want to make sure they're on the up and up with the money flow - that's why! That whole religion is nothing but a money-making, greedy empire! That's why the poor and needy don't see any of the money - because THE VATICAN KEEPS IT ALL! Enough said!

Answer 5

I am glad I converted to Catholicism.

I am always seeking knowledge.

I found this info online as 'additional readings" :


Protestants being thus impious enough to make liars of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Ghost, and of the Apostles, need we wonder if they continually slander Catholics, telling and believing worse absurdities about them than the heathens did? What is more absurd than to preach that Catholics worship stocks and stones for gods; set up pictures of Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other saints, to pray to them, and put their confidence in them; that they adore a god of bread and wine; that their sins are forgiven by the priest, without repentance and amendment of life; that the pope or any other person can give leave to commit sin, or that for a sum of money the forgiveness of sins can be obtained ? To these and similar absurdities and slanders, we simply answer: "Cursed is he who believes in such absurdities and falsehoods, with which Protestants impiously charge the children of the Catholic Church. All those grievous transgressions are another source of their reprobation."

"But what faith can we learn from these false teachers when, in consequence of separating from the Church, they have no rule of faith? ... How often Calvin changed his opinions! And, during his life, Luther was constantly contradicting himself: on the single article of the Eucharist, he fell into thirty-three contradictions! A single contradiction is enough to show that they did not have the Spirit of God. "He cannot deny Himself" (II Timothy 2:13). In a word, take away the authority of the Church, and neither Divine Revelation nor natural reason itself is of any use, for each of them may be interpreted by every individual according to his own caprice ... Do they not see that from this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the immense variety of heretical and atheistic sects? ... I repeat: if you take away obedience to the Church, there is no error which will not be embraced.

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Additional Reading
Against the Reformers

St Alphonsus Mary De Liguori (1696-1787)Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible online

Answer 6

If you look at the religious orders within the Church, you would notice that the Church does help people in need. They minister to people in all different ways: through counseling, evangelizing, social services, missionaries, and even prayer.

Answer 7

He will use it when the time is come to use it. I know they have a looooot of money don't they.

Rev 22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed [is] he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

Answer 8

I hear ya. I believe government and organized religion are one in the same. I believe they swap power roles back and forth.

Answer 9

They help a great deal to those who are the poorest of the poor and their charitable endeavours are huge.

Answer 10

Because without money one loses power and status.