• Gympie_Gympie_pie@sh.itjust.works
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        They don’t pay taxes to the city of Rome either, despite using our services and infrastructures: they use Rome’s sewage system but don’t pay for it, they use Rome’s garbage collection system but don’t pay for it - we are talking about private homes, not just churches. They don’t pay for the police service, streets maintenance and so on. The Vatican is s literal parasite of the city of Rome and the Italian nation as a whole. They are not an independent state, they depend on us for everything, hence they should pay taxes for the social services they use.

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      Then seize property, then arrest high ranking members.

      The entire international agency is to blame

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      This is why I left the Catholic Church

      Nice, good

      and became a wizard

      uhhh…

      with unimaginable powers of alchemy and healing.

      Oh… okay… phew


      A real roller coaster, that one

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      became a wizard with unimaginable powers of alchemy and healing

      Is there a YouTube channel for that? Maybe a Great Courses Plus or a Coursera even?

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    “However, Coco noted that Koenig also urged the Holy See to not make public what he was revealing because he feared for his own life and the lives of the resistance sources who had provided the intelligence.”

    Koenig, for the 99% of people who don’t read past the headline, is the author of the letter in question.

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      You can take action without revealing your sources. Journalists and police officers do it every day. Politicians and businesses do it all the time. Yet the all powerful Catholic Church did nothing.