Catholic church is wealthier than you might think

With devastating thoroughness, Avro Manhattan explains how the popes stole the wealth of the world through the centuries. He exposes the incredible tricks played on kings, and the papal involvement with the Bolsheviks. You will read with amazement the list of corporations in Catholic hands, and see why the papacy claims ownership of the Americas.

Table of Contents:

The Historical Genesis of the Vatican's Accumulation of Wealth
Historical genesis of the Vatican's accumulation of wealth -- How the Apostolic tradition of poverty was abandoned.

The Origin of the Church's Temporal Riches
The cult of the Blessed Peter--Sale of the filings from his iron chains-- Origin of the wealth of the church--The pontiffs become kings.

The Church as the Inheritor of the Former Roman Empire
She claims the ownership of all territories of the Roman Empire--The Donation of Constantine and its subsequent profound repercussions for the West.

The Church Claims Ownership of the Western World
The Church commands secular rulers to pay her--She claims the ownership of all lands, with all their inhabitants and riches.

The Church Claims the Ownership of All Isles and Lands As Yet Undiscovered
A Pope sells Ireland to England--All Irishmen to pay an annual tribute of one penny to the Holy See--The Church "lends" the Americans to Spain and Portugal.

When the World Was About to End - A.D. 1000
Why the world would come to an end in the year A.D. 1000--What caused the credence--Believers give all their possessions to the Church.

Pay to be a Christian - Whether Alive or Dead
The Pope who sold a million Italians for 800 ounces of gold--Fines on the confessional -- The Exeter farmers' trick--Direct and indirect church taxation--The Church claims 33 per cent of personal riches of all "dead Christians"--Collects money from lepers, beggars and prostitutes.

Holy Mass Tourism for Each Generation
Origin of the first Jubilee--Go to heaven via Rome...but pay first!

Miracles, Portents and Wonders For Sale
Grasshoppers, caterpillars, leeches and snails excommunicated--Florins and vermin--Too many miracles--The saint who had to work a miracle to stop miracles.

Stock Exchanges in Indulgences
Pay for the release of a soul--Buy one million years of indulgences, to avoid Hell and shorten Purgatory with money

The Church Claims the Americas
The Church "leases" the Americas to Spain, "subleases" part of them to Portugal.

The Economic Factor Behind the Reformation
Extortion, greed and rapacity--Luxury conclaves and papal extravaganzas

The Catholic Church and the Fabulous Wealth of the Spanish Colonies
The riots of Mexico City --Conflict between the church's temporal revenue and that of the State--The Catholic Church consolidates her economic strangle-hold on the Spanish-American Empire.

Revolutions and the Church's Revenues
The North American, French and South American Revolutions reduce the Church's wealth--The Church discovers new means to make money--The invention of the "miraculous medal."

The Catholic Church is Once More Despoiled of Her Wealth in Europe and the Americas
The Church and the dawn of the Industrial Age--The Catholic Church again becomes a billionaire in Latin America--The Church's alliance with the U.S. Oil Corporation--Attempt to involve the U.S. in a war against Mexico to recover her wealth.

The Catholic Church Welcomes the Rise of Bolshevism
Secret negotiations with Lenin. She plans to replace the Orthodox Church, and prepares to administer the latter's wealth--Failure of the Vatican--Kremlin deal.

First Foundations of a Twentieth-Century Catholic Financial Empire
The Catholic Church invests her billion lire in real estate, stocks, shares in Fascist Italy--She backs industrial war machinery to make quick profits-- Causes of her spectacular success--Her vast properties on the Iberian peninsula.

The Total Wealth of the Church Before and During the Second World War
Economic motivations which prompted the Catholic Church to support Nazi Germany--Her riches in European countries--Her policy of investment in South America and the U.S.--Approximate total wealth of the Catholic Church at the beginning and at the end of the Second World War.

The Vatican Invests Millions in War Industries Transfers Most of Them to the U.S.A.
The Church's interest in Italian and German war industries --The General who wanted to bomb the Vatican--The Catholic Church's financial and economic presence in Italy.

Why the Catholic Church is the Richest Church of America
Three-billion-dollar income a year for organized religion in the U.S.--Why the Vatican sent its millions to the U.S.

Member of the Billionaire Club of the U.S.A.
Characteristics of American Catholicism --Identification of the Catholic Church with U.S. big business --The Catholic Church as a member of the exclusive Billionaire Club of America

Cardinals into Stockbrokers
Stockbroker of the Holy Mother Church--the 636-million dollar diocese--The Catholic Church "second" only to the U.S. government.

Catholic Urban Take-over in the U.S.A.
The tale of the three clerics--"The Yankee Stadium? That's ours, too!"--The real estate clerical brigade--Catholic urban take-over--Typical unedifying instances.

The Wealthiest Giant Theocracy of the Americas
Catholic financial penetration of the U.S.--Schools and hospitals financed by taxpayers--Monks and nuns and their untaxed profits--The Jesuits, the Bank of America and their links with the U.S. air corporations--The "poor nuns" with one-billion-dollar assets.

The Richest and the Poorest, the Church in America and the Church in Russia
The Million Dollars and the "Mendicant Orders"--The clerical-master builders of America--Closed Churches, empty Churches and Church-Museums in Soviet Russia--Lenin in place of Christ--What the KGB said during a service --The cross and the star in Moscow Red Square.

Origin of the Current Colossal Wealth of the Catholic Church
Origin of her contemporary wealth--The Vatican invests millions in Turkish securities--The House of Rothschild and Vatican investments--Catholic gold reserves larger than those of France and England--The Vatican as the richest estate owner in the world--Vatican colossal evasion of taxation--The Vatican milks the German taxpayer--The Vatican investment with the giant corporations--How wealthy is the Church?

The Best Thing to Have Happened Since Jesus Christ
The Vatican pleads poverty--Sound re-investment of its funds--Secret financial information from the U.S.A. --Pope Pius XI discovers "The best Jew since Jesus Christ"--Investment without theology--Paul VI finds a promising successor

The Popes Very Own Financial Little Fox
The Archbishop and the chicory-seller's son--The wealthiest self-made man of Europe--Financial advisor and solver of imbroglios--He extracts the Church from embarrassing situations--The Pope calls him "his very own little fox"--The Vatican financial advisor's dazzling progress--The Vatican chooses 18 top businessmen to advise its advisor --Phenomenal growth of the Vatican portfolio--European hostility--Move to the U.S.A.

The Catholic Church, Nixon, the Freemasons, and the Jailed "Vatican Wizard"
The Vatican and one million dollars for the Nixon campaign--Rumors of million dollar losses--The Church and the Freemason to the rescue--A suit in U.S. Federal Court--Secret meeting in Europe with the Pope's Nuncio--A federal judge is snubbed by the Vatican--The Vatican Bank's director is questioned by the U.S. about a suspected $900 million in counterfeit bonds--The Pope's financial wizard is found guilty on 65 charges.

God's Banker, Lodge P2, and the Vatican
The corpse across a railway line and the Bank of Rome--The Vatican financial advisor discovers a bright pupil--The pupil becomes God's banker--The mystery of P2 lodge--The riddle of Catholic Masons--400 million dollars interest to pay--A Vice-president is shot in the legs--God's banker's secretary commits "suicide".

The Vatican Mafia Operators and Operations
An investigator is killed, before his report--The Opus Dei offers to help the Vatican Bank--The IOR is accused of holding numbered Swiss bank accounts--Cannot, or is prevented from withdrawing its alleged millions--Warnings from the chief of the anti-terrorist police--The 100 bullets assassination--The tip of the conspiratorial iceberg.

Riddle of an Enigma, The Vatican Bank
Six billion in deposits--Money, religion and power--The Pope's and the Vatican's secret funds--Duality of the Vatican Bank's activities--The Borgia seizure of the Vatican's treasury.

1983-1984: The Unholy Holy Year, Indulgences, Cash and Pope-Idolatry
Unholy Holy Year, the great money spinner--The youngest Pope in history buys the Papacy--The Pope who invented a "Sacred Commemoration"; to pay a 1,000 million dollar debt--Two historical comments.

The Intangible Billions of the Catholic Church
The immense real and intangible wealth of the Catholic Church--The most incalculable art collector in the world--Value of her art treasures; one thousand millions worth of pictures--How much for the Sistine Chapel?--Other imponderable sources of income--What would Christ do with it?

Arbiter of the Western World
The Catholic Church as the owner of one-third of all the wealth of Europe and of the Americas by the end of this century.