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An article from The Economist putting the temporal affairs of the Catholic Church under a microscope.

An article from The Economist putting the temporal affairs of the Catholic Church under a microscope. Here are the opening sentences:

OF ALL the organisations that serve America’s poor, few do more good work than the Catholic church: its schools and hospitals provide a lifeline for millions. Yet even taking these virtues into account, the finances of the Catholic church in America are an unholy mess.

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