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    6 months ago

    That’s in Italy (Milan) and it is due to lack of public funds to pay for monument restoration.

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        If only the owner of those churches was one of the wealthiest organizations on the planet… Oh, wait

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              I know it’s just another type of lawful evil, but if it helps, I used to work in those types of insurance claims and we denied every single one where they knew or should have known about it (and the rapists themselves were never covered).

              I quit, because generallyfuck that, but part of what made me leave was the experience of gathering lists of credibly accused priests and finding their earliest accusation. Any wrongdoing after that could be considered expected and there would be no coverage for it. At the very most, we covered the person who initially hired the perpetrator, but only until the point that they should have fired them (first complaint, sketchy behavior, etc.). If they ignored or reassigned the priest into a new position with access to children, then often even that was denied.

              I’ve since moved to another country, where insurance works completely differently (and the church is in nearly every country), so they definitely have a variety of policies, but at least in the US, you can’t insure expected or intended consequences with most companies, and you can’t insure illegal conduct at all.

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        This monument was paid by indulgences. ADs on top of it are free money for the church they can spend brainwashing people into their cult.

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      Religious monuments in italy are owned by the catholic church. If they are in need of money perhaps the pope could sell same of their golden gauntlets or their apartments in london

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Ambrosiano

      The italian goverment doesn’t lack money either, politicians just raised their salary.

      The really essence of this building is to be an AD for the church, which by the time it was build was a state with an army.

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      6 months ago

      The amount the Italian government makes in taxes should EASILY cover any restoration. I think the correct term you are looking for is economic mismanagement.

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        Or the Municipality of Milan, which is from an opposition party and in continuous struggle with the central government (and the regional one).

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        That’s probably because the ad isn’t actually on the facade of the building. It’s on the scaffolding put up against the facade while restorations take place. They put an image of the building itself on the scaffolding canvas, and then put a screen in front of that.