CSPAN2 Book TV August 14, 2011
who are clamoring if you will for their own rights as parishioners, and as the bishops have begun to close churches, these churches become forms of property. the story of how the vatican oversees the liquidation of these assets is something i had utterly no idea about until i began to research. so let me give you one overview of the book with a little shorthand. first, two sets of numbers. every year at the end of june, there is a collection called peter's pence. peter's pence goes for the charitable uses of the pope. pope benedict rebuilt the school or provided $250,000 to rebuild t...