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The Vatican Billions

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   Origin of the Current Colossal Wealth of the Catholic Church The current spectacular accumulation of wealth by the Catholic Church is a comparatively recent phenomenon. It really was initiated when the See of Peter was deprived of the Papal States by the Italians in 1870. These states included Rome itself and comprised almost one third of the Italian peninsula. It was then that she began the accumulation of riches according to the success formula of the modern industrial and financial world. The main foundation stones however, were laid by Pope Benedict XV (1914-22) during and after the First World War (1914-18). He originated today's Vatican policy that church and papal investments should not be limited by political or religious considerations, but instead should be handled purely on the basis of sound, good, concrete and profitable business. The Vatican at that time had not the liquid resources which it received a decade later from Fascist Italy, but it had suf...

Open letter to the President Barack Obama

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   Hear the cry of the people! The situation in Syria is worrying and once again the U.S., setting Themselves up as policeman of the world, seeks to invade Syria in the name of "freedom" and "human rights". Your predecessor, George W. Bush, in his messianic madness in Place Knew how to religious fundamentalism to perform messianic wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. When Stated That He Talked to God and God Told him That I had to attack Iraq, porque I did was God's ruling to export "freedom" to the world. You have spoken, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Rev. Luther King, Also a Nobel Peace Prize, of the need to complete the "Dream" of a shared table, of Whom was the Most Significant expression of struggle for racism civil rights in the world's first democracy slave. Luther King was a man who gave his life to give life, and as Such he is a martyr of our time. He was killed after the March over Washington, Becaus...