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Pope says people being ‘defrauded by the rich’ in latest forceful sermon
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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He makes a good point.
At the same time, how much has religion defrauded the common people?
Enemy of my enemy and all that. With the state of things the way they are, you bet I take what I can get.
Rather it be the catholic church doing the defrauding than the regime. At least the church has a (spotted) history of helping people. I mean they shined brightly during the black death, and they are a source of comfort for some people in the final moments. That, in of itself, is noble and something worth supporting despite a spotty record.
Compare that with the regime's looting the coffers with nothing remotely comparable.
Spotted is an understatement. Pedophilic rings and Mafia dealings forever.
As opposed to those billionaires, who do all that, but without the charity to help the social-pill go down.
Sounds like the US government atm
Yeah.. Leo likes to throw bricks but lives in a glass house of billions and pedophiles and misogyny. Maybe clean up his own act before preaching.
Alright blud I'm sure that the current pope built it himself with his own money and the vatican is not definitely a few hundreds of years old and built in an extremely different socioeconomic environment where the church WAS the state and not just a religious institution.
That being said, right, I got it! Let's sell all of this beauty to neoliberal states and billionaires so that they can turn them into malls and parking lots!
Why not take on both using the same message.
Let’s not gatekeep influential people acting in the positive interests of others just because they have problems of their own to work on
What is he doing to address the problems in the vatican?
He's making distracting comments. Very Trumpish.
Yeah. I visited the Vatican on vacation and my only thought while inside St Peter's was "Damn this place is so fucking expensive."
I'm not even sure how anyone can get any sort of piety happening with that ridiculous amount of wealth on display.
And they still want women to die in childbirth and have no rights within their church.
How many pedophile priests have been caught to date? 6,000 just in the USA. This makes Epstein Island not even a rounding error.