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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a non-practicing Catholic and can see exactly why there is a lot of animosity toward the Catholic church. It's hard for millions of people to approve of a multi-billion dollar institution that tells other people how to live while not only turning a blind eye to decades of child molestation, but could also easily build a hospital for the poor if it sold off a few lavish properties in the US and Europe. The church in many ways has forgotten the poor man who walked around in sandals, was kind to children and threw money changers out of his father's house. And the church is able to go on this way because so many Catholics are more interested in the blessings but not actually living according to the words of Jesus Christ. [/quote]

Those buildings are part of the world's architectural and artistic patrimony.  They are expensive to maintain and free for the public to view and worship in.  It would be a tragedy if they were placed in private hands and the masses could not see or worship in them.  Remember also that these places when they were built were the pride and joy of the local community and often built with donated labor and donated paintings commissioned by nobles.  They served secular and religious purposes.  (The religious purposes, btw, were to inspire people trapped in the day to day to lift up their heads and hearts to heaven and think about the eternal -- then work from their in their own lives.)

Also in many cases they would not fetch asuch as you think because the cost to renovate them for a new use would be astronomical.

I donate to charities that fight poverty.  I also donate to charities that display beautiful art and architecture.  The two goals are not mutually exclusive.  [/quote]

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