Reply #120: I'm stunned that anyone can reconcile Christianity with the Church™.

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Imagine this - Christ walking with the Pope, who happens to have some piece of papal pomp -- gilded, bejeweled and owned by the church. They walk by an orphanage in any third world country. There are kids starving, in need of medicine, poorly educated, etc. The Pope happens to see the look on Christ's face. What does he have to say for himself and the church? "Yeah, but we are helping some other people somewhere else"? I mean, when did Christ say that there was a limit on giving? When did he say that it was okay to have multi-millions in art when the least among us don't have their basic human needs met?