Rene Descartes
Gold Meritorious Patron
puh-leeze...
you must be terribly innocent
this sort of thing has been common in the relgion industry since time immemorial
my best pal's paternal grandmother was a very remarkable and prosperous businesswoman. sh swore all the way to her deathbed the RCC had swindled her out of some real estate in montreal by forging her signature. she went to court over it when it happened and the judge ruled in favor of the RCC. yeah. the judge was a catholic and no doubt a personal friend of many top RCC administrators - they run the church, not the priests. all the way to the vatican. the holy see raised it's postal rates once and someone went to the pope to complain and his eminence said "what do you want me to do? i'm just the pope" - and they said, "look we need the money and she's got plenty..."
So this RCC you mention did that? Okay.
Did they quote a particular policy letter or executive directive that they were following?
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