Op2,

Since you are curious about where the money goes, you could start with St Vinnies.
https://www.vinnies.org.au/page/Publications/VICTORIA/Annual__Financial_Reports/

try this and follow on.

www.google.com.au/search?q=annual+financial+statement+diosese+of+sydney&rlz=1C1CAFB_enAU718AU718&oq=annual+financial+statement+diosese+of+sydney&aqs=chrome..69i57.28933j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

//When I say #hashtag trendiness I refer the whole social media mindset where short-term herd mentality causes a groundswell of moral panic or outrage or virtue signalling which overturns, with little thought and less understanding, long held societal norms.//

So you're still arguing that progressive politics are exclusively the product of the modern age? Or have I misconstrued again?

I still maintain that increasing liberty for minorities isn't a new idea: women's suffrage, the civil rights movement... these existed long before the social media or indeed the internet. Letting gays marry is just a specific example of a generalised phenomenon which has been occurring in democratic nations for some time now.

//Yeah that's why they exist. Nothing to do with communion, Christianity (or Islam).//

Yeah, I wasn't being literal.

//We should be so bloody lucky.[that the churches be silenced]

A devotee of Mill (yeah sure!) hopes for the silencing of a large minority of the populace.//

Well now who's deliberately misconstruing points? You know that it's still putting words in somebody's mouth even you wrap those words in brackets?

I'm not in favour of anybody being 'silenced'. That implies some sort of government goons going about treading upon people's right to free speech with jackbooted heel, and I'm not in favour of that sort of crap. But I'm totally in favour some people voluntarily putting a bloody sock in it. To paraphrase Voltaire "I may be willing to defend to the death your right to free speech, but I do wish you'd pipe down a bit."

foxy don't bother to try to get around this one. It is and has always been and will forever be the domain of a man and a woman. Stop trying to justify an unnatural act as being the norm, especially on such an occasion. The fact that heterosexual women, apparently don't mind 'copping it up the arse' does not mean it's OK. It's not and that's the end of it. The heterosexual couples engaging in such acts are as disgusting as the queers so don't expect any straight people to sanction the queers perverted antics simply because some straight people have gone the way of the sick and twisted. I don't get it we have this beautiful thing called 'woman'. She has all the god given gifts and attributes to pleasure a man no end. Why the f@(k would you not indulge yourself (in this wonderful thing called 'woman'). You queers have no idea what you are missing out on. Viva la femme fatale.

Gee Is Mise a couple of published annual reports... I now know everything...lol

It's a little more complicated than that I am afraid, but feel good about your big Google find...lol Do you know anything about auditing?

If publicly released accounts are so accurate how come some corporations manage to have so much money in tax havens that don't appear on their accounts.. Golly gee that's a tricky one!...lol

You seem to be accepting of "trust me I'm a religious group and I have publicly documented accounts"...lol

Now of course these accounts might be absolutely accurate and I'm not saying they aren't, because I didn't look at them...

As can be seen by all the crime and coverup in the churches and other groups there can be no trust.

Would you trust a group that covered up the horrendous crimes against children committed by it's people for years?

Would you trust someone who lied to children about talking snakes justifying the oppression of women since their laughable beginning of time - (about 6000 odd years)? lmao

Would you trust a group who scare children with lies about the devil, hellfire and damnation, and spending eternity in the sulphur lakes of hell - All which don't even exist?

It seems you would...lmao

Some of us are a lot smarter than that and have realised that these places need to be looked at very closely and very often. The problem is because of the insidious nature of religion they seem to escape true investigation and remain a tightly closed shop.

But thanks for your expertise in finding stuff using Google... Seeing we have Google we should do away with auditors all together...lmao

Keep up the good work...lmao

ALTRAV writes: "She has all the god given gifts and attributes to pleasure a man no end. Why the f@(k would you not indulge yourself (in this wonderful thing called 'woman').

Lesbians do.

Again with the focus on male homosexuality. If it's not anal sex, then it's bewilderment at how gay men could not be attracted to women.

Following this line of thinking to its logical conclusion, ALTRAV must sympathise with lesbians and wonder why not all straight women are gay.

I know I do.