Schadenfreude, no doubt, but this news story that I first came across on the radio this morning did make me laugh. The Vatican City blocked from electronic financial transactions because it doesn't comply with EU regulations designed to avoid money laundering. The pontifical mafiosi getting their comeuppance at last, maybe?
Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B
Hi there, Sammy
ReplyDeleteI saw the same story on the BBC website, and it raised a wry smile. Indeed, the BBC say that the Vatican bank has been implicated in previous money-laundering. It seems remarkably ironic that an organisation claiming the moral high ground should find itself in this state. The spirit of the Borgias is not entirely dead, apparently...
Take care
Mark
Hello Mark
ReplyDeleteI'm tempted to say that the whole ethos of the Catholic Church is based around money laundering, stealing from the poor, directly or indirectly, to give to the less deserving. If anything, the Borgias were, while thoroughly vile, at least less hypocritical than their modern counterparts in that they seem to have made little secret of their megalomaniac ambitions. Although, having said that, Alexander VI's successor, Guiliano della Rovere, was just as grasping and Machiavellian, just slightly more subtle about it. 'Twas ever thus, it seems.
Love & best wishes
Sammy B
I'm sure they'll wail and shriek about religious intolerance and because they are somehow behooven to God, they should be allowed to do their own blessed thing.
ReplyDeleteI don't follow too much stuff like this, because I really don't care if the Catholic Church is cut off the rest of the financial world. No great loss, I'd say.
Peace <3
Jay
Hello Jay
DeleteNo loss at all, in my opinion, if the whole disgusting edifice imploded. The irony was what I found amusing, though - as Mark suggested, the self-righteous hoist by their own petard.
Love & best wishes
Sammy B