Help refute/support me please

[Monoxide]

My history teacher was talking in class and somehow corruption came up as a topic. The catholic church was mentioned - I woke up faster than you can say wtf? Anyway, the argument was that that church holds multi billion dollar investements in large corperations such as Coca Cola and others. I am going to mention how the church needs to support all their hospitals, schools and aid, and that many of these investments were gifts from wealthy catholics. Anything else i can say?

[popestpiusx]

You'll not likely convince him/her that he/she is wrong. The best option, I think, is to walk up and deliver a good solid blow to the nose with the palm of your right hand. Then say something cool like "How's that for corruption. Maybe you'll think twice next time before spreading your lies about my Church", or some such thing.

[spathariossa]

I don't think the Church holds any investments.

[gonzaga]

I totally agree with Pius. lol. Actually, that usually works when defending the church against smartmouth protestants.

[jezic]

I don't think that the church has to many multi-billion dollar investments.

the vatican says that for the coming years they are financially secure. They usually never give an amount.

That doesn't mean the whole catholic church has some money, just the vatican.

[StColette]

This thread: [url="http://phorum.phatmass.com/index.php?showtopic=27147&hl=rich"]http://phorum.phatmass.com/index.php?showtopic=27147&hl=rich[/url]

was started not too long ago. It talked about the issue of if the Church is rich or not, considering what we found we have acknowledge that the Church isn't rich but it does have enough money to where it is in a stable financial position.

If someone tries to bring forth the argument that the Church must be wealthy because of all the art work, they should do more research. The art work that is found in the Vatican and in most Catholic Churches has been donated by families.

If the Church were to up and decide to start selling off some of that artwork it would colapse the economy that circulates around artwork.