They could auction off the assets of the entire RCC, divide it all up among themselves, and shut everything down. They could admit that it was a all a fraud and that they're real sorry, but it's over. Put the Vatican library up for sale on Amazon as used books, sell the buildings, paintings and all, to some developer, and flee to some warm place with an ocean view.

Then, we could build a high wall around whatever place they select and ban them all from every leaving it.

Yeah, that's the ticket...

a victims compensation fund.

That shit they have in the Vatican is worth billions.

About 1980, my father the bank examiner was doing his job and ran across a loan made to the Diocese of Arlington. That one diocese four decades ago had assets worth over one billion, and not much in the way of liabilities.

As best he could make out, the only reason they took out the loan was to harangue people into donating more money to support the poor, cash-strapped church. My mother was dragging me to St. Leo's in Fairfax at the time. The pleas for support to help the poor, broke church pay off the loan were as passionate as they were laughable.

And the story of French nationalization of church property leading to fiat money problems is also worth examining when you want to talk about the sheer wealth of the organization. Has to be trillions or more in real value.

Is, it might well be over 1000 billion, so just pretend we are English, it would still be billions.

But however we slice it they have a simply mind-boggling level of ill-gotten gains.