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"Mike Painter" |
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22 Aug 2004 04:37:37 PM |
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Pope charges big bucks ? |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,12272,1286152,00.html
My reading of this is that the pope charges for his visits and expects to
get paid from "gifts"
"The Catholic shrine of Lourdes yesterday opened a special bank account and
appealed for donations from the faithful after it emerged that last
weekend's visit by the Pope had left it with a ?1.2m (£812,000) deficit.
"The figures are bad," admitted Monsignor Jacques Perrier, the Bishop of
Lourdes. "We've covered only about 15% of the visit's cost. We need to find
?1.2m."
This will not happen when I'm pope.
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: Pope charges big bucks ? |
22 Aug 2004 05:00:21 PM |
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"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:Bm8Wc.10194$gd5.1239@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,12272,1286152,00.html
My reading of this is that the pope charges for his visits and expects
to get paid from "gifts"
"The Catholic shrine of Lourdes yesterday opened a special bank
account and appealed for donations from the faithful after it emerged
that last weekend's visit by the Pope had left it with a ?1.2m
(£812,000) deficit. "The figures are bad," admitted Monsignor Jacques
Perrier, the Bishop of Lourdes. "We've covered only about 15% of the
visit's cost. We need to find ?1.2m."
This will not happen when I'm pope.
I'd imagine that there are quite a bit of costs associated with a Papal
visit. Security, transportation, housing, special medical stuff, crowd
control...
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Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Cthulhu for President! Why vote for a lesser evil?
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| User: "ArWeGod" |
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| Title: Re: Pope charges big bucks ? |
22 Aug 2004 05:40:39 PM |
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"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:Xns954DB72DF3305fstone69@207.69.154.203...
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:Bm8Wc.10194$gd5.1239@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,12272,1286152,00.html
My reading of this is that the pope charges for his visits and expects
to get paid from "gifts"
"The Catholic shrine of Lourdes yesterday opened a special bank
account and appealed for donations from the faithful after it emerged
that last weekend's visit by the Pope had left it with a ?1.2m
(£812,000) deficit. "The figures are bad," admitted Monsignor Jacques
Perrier, the Bishop of Lourdes. "We've covered only about 15% of the
visit's cost. We need to find ?1.2m."
This will not happen when I'm pope.
I'd imagine that there are quite a bit of costs associated with a Papal
visit. Security, transportation, housing, special medical stuff, crowd
control...
Procuring little boys. Michael Jackson has spent millions on this expense
alone.
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ArWeWealthy
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| User: "Brian E. Clark" |
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| Title: Re: Pope charges big bucks ? |
23 Aug 2004 04:26:16 PM |
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Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
I'd imagine that there are quite a bit of costs associated with a Papal
visit. Security, transportation, housing, special medical stuff, crowd
control...
No doubt, but why wouldn't the Vatican reimburse papal venues for these
expenses?
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Brian E. Clark
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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| Title: Re: Pope charges big bucks ? |
23 Aug 2004 04:57:01 PM |
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Brian E. Clark wrote:
Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
I'd imagine that there are quite a bit of costs associated with a
Papal visit. Security, transportation, housing, special medical
stuff, crowd control...
No doubt, but why wouldn't the Vatican reimburse papal venues for
these expenses?
The other idea that occured to me is that Lourdes is in finacial trouble and
hope to raise big bucks by having somebody big.
Odd, he says sarcastically, that The Pope visits Lourdes and the reports are
about loosing money rather than many miracle cures...
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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| Title: Re: Pope charges big bucks ? |
22 Aug 2004 09:01:31 PM |
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Fred Stone wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:Bm8Wc.10194$gd5.1239@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,12272,1286152,00.html
My reading of this is that the pope charges for his visits and
expects to get paid from "gifts"
"The Catholic shrine of Lourdes yesterday opened a special bank
account and appealed for donations from the faithful after it emerged
that last weekend's visit by the Pope had left it with a ?1.2m
(£812,000) deficit. "The figures are bad," admitted Monsignor Jacques
Perrier, the Bishop of Lourdes. "We've covered only about 15% of the
visit's cost. We need to find ?1.2m."
This will not happen when I'm pope.
I'd imagine that there are quite a bit of costs associated with a
Papal visit. Security, transportation, housing, special medical
stuff, crowd control...
As for the crowd control:
"We had recommended that pilgrims leave ?10 each at the shrine, but our
appeal was based on the idea that they would be held up by security checks
and have plenty of time to prepare their gift.
"In fact, there were no delays at all."
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