I think there is a powerful lesson that the Church can teach the world here. This temporal crisis can be resolved easily by the laity. All we need to do is each send a little money -- say, as much as one of our typical coffee-shop purchases -- on a single Sunday, and that's the end of the Vatican's financial deficit.

This would require a small contribution from each, en masse, of course.

If is possible we can solve the financial problem of the Vatican in such a painless and expedient way, … [More]