I’m going to get my foreign policy nerd on for a second here: the entire diplomatic corp of the Holy See has the SMALLEST operating budget of any nation state that maintains diplomatic relations with over 190 states in some form or another (plus the UN). Think about the US state department. $41 million dollars is probably what they spend…
I’m going to get my foreign policy nerd on for a second here: the entire diplomatic corp of the Holy See has the SMALLEST operating budget of any nation state that maintains diplomatic relations with over 190 states in some form or another (plus the UN). Think about the US state department. $41 million dollars is probably what they spend on letterhead paper per year to work with the same volume of nation states. You really see how much potential waste there is in secular nation-states when you compare the operating budget, the reach and diplomatic successes of the Holy See with any other foreign affairs department.
Cardinal Pell was absolutely onto something and he’s turned around two large Archdioceses in Australia financially (Melbourne and Sydney). He was more on the front foot with the sexual abuse crisis in the mid 1990s and able to fund compensation (imperfectly, but there was nothing else like Pell’s Melbourne response in either religious or secular organisations) for victims without financially collapsing the diocese.
I’m going to get my foreign policy nerd on for a second here: the entire diplomatic corp of the Holy See has the SMALLEST operating budget of any nation state that maintains diplomatic relations with over 190 states in some form or another (plus the UN). Think about the US state department. $41 million dollars is probably what they spend on letterhead paper per year to work with the same volume of nation states. You really see how much potential waste there is in secular nation-states when you compare the operating budget, the reach and diplomatic successes of the Holy See with any other foreign affairs department.
Cardinal Pell was absolutely onto something and he’s turned around two large Archdioceses in Australia financially (Melbourne and Sydney). He was more on the front foot with the sexual abuse crisis in the mid 1990s and able to fund compensation (imperfectly, but there was nothing else like Pell’s Melbourne response in either religious or secular organisations) for victims without financially collapsing the diocese.