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Bezig met laden... God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vaticandoor Gerald Posner
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. An exhausting but probably important look inside this insanely secretive organization. Financial histories can be tricky to write, and realistically there is no way the Catholic Church is going to allow enough of their records to become public for a comprehensive look at this topic. Still an admirable effort, but the hundreds of men and positions within the Vatican quickly started to blend together. A deep dive into the murky finances of The Vatican Bank. A true fiscal saga that includes Nazis, the Mafia, ultra rich tax evaders, and corrupt clerics and politicians. Posner really had to do his homework to amass this amount of detailed information. If financial intelligence or banking regulator are your idea of dream jobs, this is definitely the book for you. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Revealing a history of mysterious deaths, shady characters, and moral and political tensions, exposes the inner workings of the Catholic Church to trace how the Vatican evolved from an institution of faith into an extremely wealthy corporate power. --Publisher's description. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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After that, it's mostly great stuff, with the caveat that he really does stick a whole bunch of stuff in there. It's not clear to me why the child-abuse stuff is in there, even allowing for the "and power" part of the subtitle; not clear why the papal elections stuff is in there (though that's a bit fresher, at least).
So, basically, there's 300 pages of roaring, roiling idiocy and corruption, and the odd attempt to reel it all in. Fun fact: the popes the most likely to try to deal with corruption are those who are the least publicly popular (so, not John XXIII, not JPII), up until Francis, who might just be pulling off the double act. ( )