2007-06-03 17:51:53 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Catholic Church is way larger than Wal-Mart.
Globally, the wealth of the Catholic Church is estimated to be in excess of $3,000 Billion. It is the highest land owner of Manhattan Island. It owns more gold than all of Europe combined.
For over 14 centuries, the Vatican was the undisputed wealthest single economic entity in the world.
The problem is that the Catholic Church hides its wealth behind tens of thousands of front companies, blind trusts, off shore accounts and other financial loopholes to both avoid tax and the revelation of its wealth.
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/final_testament/end_of_darkness/truth/truth_0030.htm
The Vatican is by far the largest holder of land titles for any organisation or government in the world with visible title to around US $316 Billion of property (churches, schools, hospitals etc) and around US $2,623 Billion of investment property hidden in an extremely complex networks of hundreds of thousands of trusts and front companies.
The current market property value of Vatican City, in the heart of Rome alone is worth between US $1 Billion and $3 Billion. This excludes the value of the priceless artworks and valuables stored within its walls.
The most valuable property holdings of the Catholic Church by nation is the United States with around $50 Billion in visible property holdings and around $507 Billion in hidden property holdings through a massively complex network of front companies and trusts.
While we may never know the true and staggering wealth of the church, two facts are certain:
(1) The Catholic Church steadfastly refuses to be an open book to its global wealth and
(2) has not shown the slightest interest in using its massive wealth to solve world poverty and massive problems once and for all.
2007-06-04 01:26:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Catholic Church. Wal-Mart pays taxes.
2007-06-03 17:55:30 · answer #2 · answered by miri-miri-off-the-wall 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church. Even Wal-Mart doesn't have more money than God.
The Catholic Church also has many more convenient locations ... on earth and in heaven.
And everything the Catholic Church provides is guaranteed by Jesus ... for eternity.
All in all, a much better value.
2007-06-03 20:52:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Wal-Mart has more money
but the Catholic church is worth more
2007-06-03 17:57:10 · answer #4 · answered by the shiz 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You cannot compare the Catholic Church and Walmart.
All of the Walmart stores in the world are owned by one Company - Walmart. The profits or losses of a particular store effect the parent company.
All of the Catholic churches in the world are financially independent. The contributions of one church do not go to support other churches. There are some very rich churches in affluent neighborhoods and there are churches in very poor neighborhoods that can barely pay their bills.
2007-06-04 01:40:45 · answer #5 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Roman Catholic church!
2007-06-03 17:59:51 · answer #6 · answered by arvin_ian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church really has no money.
The Vatican's income is a bit over $200 million. That isn't much. It goes off to feed poor people and to fund Vatican services. Everything goes right back out to benefit the people. In fact, spending is getting to be quite a problem, because the Vatican actually tends to lose more money than it makes.
Universities actually get more money than the Vatican does. Harvard gets over $1 billion a year, for example. $200 million sounds like a lot, but in reality, it isn't. Consider also that the Vatican is its own independent country. $200 million income for a country is, frankly, pathetic. Small cities make way more than that.
2007-06-06 13:25:06 · answer #7 · answered by J.J. Bustamante 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They're both corrupt organizations that exploit their workers/followers. I don't see the dead Wal-Mart owner walking around with gold all over his attire, so it must be the Catholic church.
2007-06-03 18:04:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The catholic church is filled with priceless art (ie paintings, sculptures, carvings, and buildings), but these are things she preserves and though they are truly priceless, they can not be sold as she protects them for future generations.
It's not like the leaders of the church are rolling in money that they spend lavishly on cars and dvd's and big screen tv's. This is a rediculous question.
2007-06-03 18:01:47 · answer #9 · answered by The_good_guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholic Church for sure!!
2007-06-03 18:19:37 · answer #10 · answered by LIEUTENANT K STAR!!!! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋