How rich is the Church? A new investigation tries to explain it
How rich is the Church ? This is perhaps a question that everyone has asked themselves at least once in their life. And many others derive from it: does the Pope have a salary ? Who does the 8xmille money go to ? Why does the Church not pay the IMU ? Does the Vatican pay the bills? And the IOR ? What is hiding in there? Mimmo Muolo , Vatican expert and deputy head of the Roman editorial office of the CEI Avvenire newspaper, tries to answer these and many other similar questions in his interesting book The Money of the Church(Paoline). An unprecedented and very thorough investigation emerges that has the merit of clarifying and denying…