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Originally Posted by chinthee  Dr. Bob posts a good in depth article. But, I prefer to remember the Mario Puzo, Godfather type of Vatican. It's more intriguing. All kidding aside, I would suppose there are all sorts of off-balance sheet treasures that don't show up in the official books. Ancient priceless manuscripts, who knows? Who knows if they occasionally liquidate some of those treasures for mad money that who knows what they do with?
I don't trust the official story in this case. |
Any reason why you don't trust the story or is it just a hunch?
According to Vatican Law, art treasures belong to the patrimony of the Holy See and cannot be sold. Unlikely somebody could drop a Leonardo or Michaelangelo on the art market without it being noticed anyway
I like the nasty style of Vatican too, got a lot of good books, fiction and non-fiction on that, I'll see if I can do some reviews on them. You'd probably like Andrew Greeley, one of my favourites, a priest, scholar, theologian, and novelist who wrote some great Puzo-esque Vatican gangster novels. He also writes great Vatican non-fiction as well, all sorts of insider's eye-views, fascinating stuff.
Andrew Greeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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