re: #407 ThomasLite

Well, what with the French state having explicitly expropriated pretty much every monumental church a good while back, and also restricting any religious operator of such state-owned monuments from charging admission etc, etc, one could argue the French state has kind of gotten themselves on the hook for this sort of thing.
I mean, they wanted to dictate the terms, run the show - can’t wash their hands of it now.

But it would be the right thing to do, wouldn’t it? Why does the church need $15 billion except for payoffs of child rape?