...someone starts beefing about the riches of the Vatican art collection and how the Church ought to do a better job of helping the poor and needy, remember this:
Vatican gave about $650 million in tsunami relief
UNITED NATIONS (CNS) -- Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, said July 13 that agencies related to the Vatican had given an estimated $650 million in relief to victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami in the Indian Ocean area. In addition, work is still being done by several organizations involved in projects throughout the region, he said.
I know and have always known that the Catholic Church is one of the most generous contributors.
I do wish, however, that they wouldn't send their contributions through the UN.
We should have nothing to do with that totally corrupt and anti-religious organization.
Dorothy,
I agree with your comment 100%; however, I don't think the Vatican's $ went 'through' the UN, per se.
I think Migliore is just the Vatican nuncio to the UN, but that doesn't mean that's where the money went. Come to think of it, why does the Vatican HAVE a nuncio to the UN?! Ewwwww.
Mark 12:41-44.