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Date: March 16, 2013 01:52PM
"Pope Francis wants 'poor Church for the poor'" -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21812545Meanwhile, the latest financial report of LD$ Inc. filed with Britain's Charity Commission says that "The actual reserves at 31 December 2011 were £254,416,000[.]" (See p. 14 at
http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends51/0000242451_ac_20111231_e_c.pdf ). In USD, that's $392,945,512.
What could LD$ Inc. do with, say, just 5% of its financial reserves in the UK (£12,720,800/$19,647,271)? Provide education, safe water, nutritious food, and healthcare for nearly 42,000 children for a year through a well-established and -respected humanitarian organization.
In July 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that "A study co-written by [Univ. of Tampa professor Ryan] Cragun and recently published in Free Inquiry estimates that the Mormon Church donates only about 0.7 percent of its annual income to charity; the United Methodist Church gives about 29 percent." (See p. 5 at
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-10/how-the-mormons-make-money#p5 )
According to the New Testament, didn't Jesus say something about "where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"?
Considering that the man described in the Bible as the son of God was very concerned about the poor and otherwise needy, it's no wonder that Ron Madson, a fifty-seven year-old “lawyer and lifelong Mormon who once served as a church bishop”, quoting the indepth Businessweek article, said:
"Members of our faith are very generous and very sacrificing, very charitable — they pay tithes and fast offerings, and when they see needs, they address those needs. When we see the church not doing the same things it asks the members to do, we recoil. We wonder, is this looking more and more like a corporation and less and less like a church?" (His quote is on p. 5 at the above link.)
LD$ Inc. is not certainly led by the likes of a Pope Francis. Monson can tell all the heart-tugging stories about people in need he likes, but the Morg's financial reports speak far more loudly about what really matters to the senior prie$thood leader$hip of the 'one, true' corp. of Mormonism's Je$u$ Chri$t.