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Originally Posted by Thor
keep up the hating mutt.
The Church is the largest single charitable organisation in the country. Catholic Charities USA, its main charity, and its subsidiaries employ over 65,000 paid staff and serve over 10m people.
The Catholic Church has a nonprofit hospital system of 637 hospitals, which account for hospital treatment of 1 out of every 5 people ? not just Catholics ? in the United States today.
The Catholic Church has 230 colleges and universities in the U.S. with an enrollment of 700,000 students.
The Catholic Church educates 2.6 million students everyday at the cost to that church of $10 billion and a savings on the other hand to the American taxpayer of $18 billion. The graduates go on to graduate studies at the rate of 92 percent.
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What does that have to with this thread?
And do you really want to get into the 'contributions' to the world the Catholic Church has been responsible for in the past 2000 years?
Where do you think the Church got those billions? God magically wires funds into its bank accounts?