Author: W. A. Jurgens
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Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Category : Catholic church in the United States
Languages : en
Pages : 764

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Author: Jason Berry
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0385531346
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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AN INVESTIGATION OF EPIC FINANCIAL INTRIGUE, RENDER UNTO ROME EXPOSES THE SECRECY AND DECEIT THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE VALUES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Sunday collection in every Catholic church throughout the world is as familiar a part of the Mass as the homily and even Communion. There is no doubt that historically the Catholic Church has been one of the great engines of charity in history. But once a dollar is dropped in that basket, where does it go? How are weekly cash contributions that can amount to tens of thousands of dollars accounted for? Where does the money go when a diocese sells a church property for tens of millions of dollars? And what happens when hundreds of millions of dollars are turned over to officials at the highest ranks, no questions asked, for their discretionary use? The Roman Catholic Church is the largest organization in the world. The Vatican has never revealed its net worth, but the value of its works of art, great churches, property in Rome, and stocks held through its bank easily run into the tens of billions. Yet the Holy See as a sovereign state covers a mere 108 acres and has a small annual budget of about $280 million. No major book has examined the church’s financial underpinnings and practices with such journalistic force. Today the church bears scrutiny by virtue of the vast amounts of money (nearly $2 billion in the United States alone) paid out to victims of clergy abuse. Amid mounting diocesan bankruptcies, bishops have been selling off whole pieces of the infrastructure—churches, schools, commercial properties—while the nephew of one of the Vatican’s most powerful cardinals engaged in a lucrative scheme to profiteer off the enormous downsizing of American church wealth.

Author: David Dirck Van Tassel
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ISBN: 9780253330550
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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"Clevelanders are rediscovering the richness of their history, and the encyclopedia project has played a vital role in this process." --Northwest Ohio Quarterly "These two volumes clearly establish a standard for encyclopedias devoted to city history and biography." --Choice "Both volumes are interesting to read and are useful reference tools." --American Reference Books Annual The first edition of this remarkable encyclopedia was published in 1987 to enthusiastic reviews. Out of print for several years, the Encyclopedia is now being reissued in an expanded, two-volume format to commemorate the bicentennial of Cleveland's founding. Volume One, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, contains more than 2000 entries, 150 photographs, maps and charts. Volume Two, the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography, with over 1600 entries, is the first major biographical guide to Cleveland published since the 1920s.

Author: Stephen Vicchio
Publisher: Christian Classic
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Library of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 1012

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Author: Lawrence A. Mossing
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Category : Toledo (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 828

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Category : Catholic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 1128

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