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To spread religion & control world by outnumbering other religions. Their only charitable contributions are in third world countries like India, Pakistan where they sponsor religious schools, mosques & scholars to spread the religion. Kind of like Vatican sponsoring churches throughout the world to spread Christianity.
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The Vatican does not financially "sponsor" churches throughout the world. In both Milwaukee and Chicago Catholic schools have closed down, and consolidated at times, in large numbers just as has now happened with the public schools in Milwaukee in Chicago.
Basic economics is that economies need 3 things to grow: Land, Labor, and Capital.
Vatican City falls short on almost of them (with capital almost non-existent) rendering it less wealthy in national income than many black countries in Africa. The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, no "rich" university in the USA, has an annual operational budget of roughly $600 million. That is twice as large as the $300 million annual income of Vatican City.
A countries national income is basically equal to it GDP (Gross Domestic Product). In another thread on this board, the discussion is about Apple having announced a $18 billion loss. Apple as a corporation loss a godly enormous amount of money that Vatican City could only dream of bringing in as national income. And the United States, as well as every single rich Muslim Gulf Country, has more a larger annual national income than $18 billion.
So, what is land? The physical geography of place including what the land produces like fruit, vegetables, trees, minerals, oil to be extracted.
So, what labor? The people and number of people.
So, what is capital? The buildings, factories, trucks, tools, machinery etc. of a company or city or country used to make goods, extract things, move things, break things, service things or people et cetera to create jobs and stuff.
Vatican City has a population less than 1,000 people (in UW-Milwuakee alone the student population is 30,000), a land area that can fit inside New York City's Central Park, no farmable land (of any size useful to create an economy of scale in agriculture), and it as no oil conpanies drilling oil in it, no automotive companies building cars and Ford trucks, no real factories to speak of in general of any significance.
In Contrast to Dubai or Saudi Arabia both oil rich and both employing lots of people.
The bank of Vatican City might be rich though. The Vatican also relies on donations, not armed IRS agents forcing people to pay taxes to it, so, as in the USA if all taxes were merely volunatary the US Government would have a far smaller budget than it does now.
The Vatican also own a lot of real estate throughout Italy and probably in other parts of the world too. So, it is wealthy in real estate which is a form of real wealth too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City
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With an area of approximately 44 hectares (110 acres), and a population of 842,[3] it is the smallest sovereign state in the world by both area and population.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Vatican_City
Basically, the City of Milwaukee is far more financially powerful than Vatican City.
Is the City of Milwaukee the most financially powerful city in the United States or more so than any city in France, Germany, or England? No.
And if the City of Milwaukee has too little money to send Milwaukeeans out across the earth to convert humans of the earth to Milwaukeeanism then it is close to impossible for the tiny budget of Vatican City to afford to finance all the Catholic schools, hospitals, and churches built across planet earth.
It is no mystery "who" built those Cathedrals in France or the USA. Like St. Josephats Basilica in Mikwaukee, as ornate and large as it is, the poor working Catholics (it this case Polish immigrants that used to live on the South Side of Milwaukee) paid for that. St. Joseph's Hospital (Catholic) that black man dropped off at by the black cop he accuses of raping him, was not and is not financed by the Vatican.
Americans presume the Pope in Rome and Putin in Russia has more universal micro-managing and centralized power, covering lots of the earth, than President Obama does in the far smaller geography of the mainland USA. Large organizations
have to decentralize power to run effectively let alone smoothly. There is no way Obama could function optimally as president while micro-managing the City of Chicago. Likewise, the Pope in Rome can't sit in Rome and take care of global issues for the church while micro-managing the Church in Chicago. And Putin can't micro-manage the whole of Russia. Impossible.
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Sounds like cultural suicide to me. 
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