And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely …

Thomas Merton
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And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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