How exactly does the Vatican justify it's wealth?

[Nathan45]

Can everyone just drop this fallacy that you can eat money or art or museums?

Money is an abstraction, you can't eat it. If the vatican sells all it's wealth, that doesn't mean that there is now more food to go around.

I don't see how you can knock the catholic church for not helping the poor enough. Because they do a lot of charitable work.

 

[beechy]

I haven't expressed an opinion about whether the Vatican helps the poor enough (I agree with you, Nathan45, that they help the poor a great deal). My posts have been responsive to posts 1) asking whether atheists have ever helped the homeless; and 2) claiming that the church only maintains relics and historic buildings with architectural value.

 

[FaithLikeARock]

Because Biblically, we aren't supposed to keep an trivial possessions. Of course some people do, but at least most will admit it. Especially coming from people who point and blame and condemn so many other people for "not recognizing their sins", you'd think the people of the Catholic church would more WILLINGLY admit that they're using money on keeping up something physical rather than using it to help people and reducing to a more modest lifestyle.

Also, there is enough food in the world. It's simply not evenly distributed and places where hungry is rampant is where it's most difficult to harvest it.

http://wfp.org/aboutwfp/introduction/hunger_causes.asp?section=1&sub_section=1