{"id":106771,"date":"2020-05-08T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/how-rich-is-the-catholic-church-its-impossible-to-tell"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:04:08","slug":"how-rich-is-the-catholic-church-its-impossible-to-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/how-rich-is-the-catholic-church-its-impossible-to-tell","title":{"rendered":"How Rich Is the Catholic Church? It\u2019s Impossible to Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-rich-is-the-catholic-church-its-impossible-to-tell2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the 1960s, Italian media uncovered evidence that the Vatican had invested in entities that conflict directly with the church\u2019s holy mission, including Istituto Farmacologico Serono, a pharmaceutical company that made birth control pills, and Udine, a military weapons manufacturer. There have also been unconfirmed rumor of church money in firearms manufacturer Beretta and companies with activities in gambling and pornography. It has been linked to dealings with Nazi gold during World War II as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>How much real estate does the Catholic Church own? What are its equity holdings? These questions, and more, not answered.<\/p>\n<p>Author: Emily StewartPublish date:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the 1960s, Italian media uncovered evidence that the Vatican had invested in entities that conflict directly with the church\u2019s holy mission, including Istituto Farmacologico Serono, a pharmaceutical company that made birth control pills, and Udine, a military weapons manufacturer. There have also been unconfirmed rumor of church money in firearms manufacturer Beretta and companies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}