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CTyankee

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Thu May 8, 2025, 01:50 PM May 2025

Does anybody remember the film "Shoes of the Fisherman"? [View all]

In that film the new Pope decides to sell the vastly precious art in the Vatican's collection and use the money to feed the poor. This horrified folks in the Vatican, but while I liked the social justice part of it I wondered about who would end up buying these masterpieces and keeping them privately, thereby denying it's access to the ordinary people.

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