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==Ecclesiastical Megalomania==
 
==Ecclesiastical Megalomania==
From the book Ecclesiastical Megalomania by [[John W. Robbins]]:<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Ecclesiastical-Megalomania-Economic-Political-Catholic/dp/0940931788</ref><ref>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2010/08/looking-up-from-valhalla-ayn-rand-and_22.html</ref>
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From the book ''Ecclesiastical Megalomania'' by [[John W. Robbins]]:<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Ecclesiastical-Megalomania-Economic-Political-Catholic/dp/0940931788</ref><ref>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2010/08/looking-up-from-valhalla-ayn-rand-and_22.html</ref>
 
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[[Ayn Rand]] was right when she wrote in [[1967]]: ''"The Catholic Church has never given up the hope to re-establish the medieval union of church and state, with a global state and a global theocracy as its ultimate goal ..."''
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{{QB|{{t|[[Ayn Rand]] was right when she wrote in [[1967]]: ''"The Catholic Church has never given up the hope to re-establish the medieval union of church and state, with a global state and a global theocracy as its ultimate goal ..."''}}}}
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==Land ownership==
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{{QB|{{t|"With more than 1 billion adherents, the Catholic Church is one of the largest, if not the largest, nongovernmental landowners in the world. One estimate puts the church’s holdings close to 177 million acres, or 277,000 square miles. If those properties were grouped together and placed on a list of the world’s countries by land area, it would fall within the top 50, higher than both France and Spain. (Plus, it is unclear whether or not the 177 million acre figure includes land owned by affiliated institutions, such as Catholic schools and hospitals, which number in the hundreds of thousands—if not millions—worldwide.)<p>
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No one knows exactly how much land the church owns because while the institution is centralized in terms of its doctrine, legally, it is quite diffuse. The Vatican doesn’t actually own church buildings in, say, Vermont or California. Decisions about acquisition or disposition are largely made at the diocesan level. (In the Catholic Church, a country like the U.S. is divided up into provinces, which are divided up into dioceses, which are made up of individual parishes, or churches.)"<ref>http://archive.today/2021.05.05-162610/https://archive.curbed.com/2017/10/18/16483194/catholic-church-gis-goodlands-esri-molly-burhans</ref><ref>http://archive.today/2021.05.05-162438/https://www.quora.com/How-much-land-does-the-Catholic-Church-own-worldwide</ref><ref>https://dailycaller.com/2016/11/15/startup-creates-map-of-the-catholic-churchs-land-around-the-world/</ref>}}}}
  
 
==Weblinks==
 
==Weblinks==
[[Walter Veith]] & [[Martin Smith]] on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y2VVuq_IAY Pope Francis Encyclical Fratelli Tutti]
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[[Walter Veith]] & [[Martin Smith]] on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y2VVuq_IAY Pope Francis encyclical] [[Fratelli Tutti]]
  
 
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Revision as of 19:03, 5 May 2021

Group.png Catholic Church   Spartacus WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
FounderJesus Christ
HeadquartersThe Vatican
Leaderpope
Typereligious
Interest ofChurch Militant, Fourth Lateran Council, William H. Kennedy, Walter Veith
SubpageCatholic Church/VIPaedophile

The Catholic Church, or Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with approximately 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide as of 2018. As the world's oldest and largest continuously functioning international institution, it has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. The pope, who is the Bishop of Rome is the chief pastor of the church. The church's administration, the Holy See, is in the Vatican City, a small enclave of Rome, of which the pope is head of state.

Ecclesiastical Megalomania

From the book Ecclesiastical Megalomania by John W. Robbins:[1][2]

Ayn Rand was right when she wrote in 1967: "The Catholic Church has never given up the hope to re-establish the medieval union of church and state, with a global state and a global theocracy as its ultimate goal ..."

Land ownership

"With more than 1 billion adherents, the Catholic Church is one of the largest, if not the largest, nongovernmental landowners in the world. One estimate puts the church’s holdings close to 177 million acres, or 277,000 square miles. If those properties were grouped together and placed on a list of the world’s countries by land area, it would fall within the top 50, higher than both France and Spain. (Plus, it is unclear whether or not the 177 million acre figure includes land owned by affiliated institutions, such as Catholic schools and hospitals, which number in the hundreds of thousands—if not millions—worldwide.)

No one knows exactly how much land the church owns because while the institution is centralized in terms of its doctrine, legally, it is quite diffuse. The Vatican doesn’t actually own church buildings in, say, Vermont or California. Decisions about acquisition or disposition are largely made at the diocesan level. (In the Catholic Church, a country like the U.S. is divided up into provinces, which are divided up into dioceses, which are made up of individual parishes, or churches.)"[3][4][5]

Weblinks

Walter Veith & Martin Smith on Pope Francis encyclical Fratelli Tutti


 

An example

Page nameDescription
Document:In eminentiFirst Papal Bull that deals with the condemnation of Freemasonry specifically.

 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Paul Marcinkus“You can't run the Church on Hail Marys.”Paul Marcinkus1986

 

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