I am an agnostic so my opinion might not be worth anything to Christians (or Catholics specifically), but I don't really see the point in organized church structures. If you believe in God, support his ideals, why do you need to go to church anyway, or at least why would you want your local church support some big hierarchy (often with controversial opinions or actions) for your money?
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Same reason people go to comicons or music concerts or protests. People just want to be with others who believe in and like the same things as they do. It's a pretty simple and basic human behavior.
It's been a long while since I was involved in a church, but my recollection of the Bible isn't able to reference anything that implies there is a need for the hierarchy associated with the Catholic Church, or similar. It kind of says you can have a personal relationship with God, and I don't recall anything about Mary being special in any way aside from giving birth to the so called Messiah.
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But God needs more money! C'mon everybody chip in, he needs his moneeeey!
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Nice
something about rich man in the kingdom of heaven right?
Could this really be? After nearly two thousands years of Catholic Church they are finally brought to their knees.
Sell some of that gold they've bought and or stolen in the last millenia or two.
Bullshit.
It could be. I haven't heard of the Irish Star. I couldn't decide whether it was bullshit propaganda designed to sound Pope Francis sound like a problem, bullshit propaganda designed to attract clicks and nothing else, truth presented with the goal of making Pope Francis sound like a problem, or what really happened. I decided to post it and stop worrying about it.
Being owned by Reach plc is definitely not a reassuring sign of credibility. Highlights of other news outlets they own include the Daily Star straight up inventing an interview with Dwayne Johnson in 2019, the Daily Express having such a bizarre obsession with Princess Diana that they still pt her name in the headlines about once a week to this day, and the Daily Mirror seemingly doing its "journalism" primarily by the method of hacking into celebrities' personal voicemails throughout most of the 00s
Can all the nations they stole artifacts and trinkets from get them back when they declare bankruptcy? /s
Why is there a sarcasm? It's a legit question.
It's probably asked sarcastically because they know it would never happen.
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Nawww poor little pedophiles.
Are you sure it's not because you've had to pay billions of dollars in settlements for priests raping children?
Are you sure that's not why?
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They might need to auction off one of those reptilian skeletons they have in the secret basement.
I'm sure God will save them .... by wiring them a few billion dollars
Thoughts and prayers.
Wait, nope, fresh out.
Bootstraps bitches. Pull em up!
lol
Ummmm... Fuck them?