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More appropriately, what is the poverty rate for Catholic dominated countries?

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How many Catholic theocratic states are there? If you don't mean outright theocratic domination of the country, what is your metric for a catholic dominated country? Majority population? Majority elected officials?

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Start with Latin America. I know evangelicals have made advances there in the past few decades, but essentially the entire region was Catholic for two centuries. Where do you think the Vatican's wealth came from?

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That's not an answer to my question of the metric you are using!

What countries are directly under papal rule such that the pope has the authority to directly dictate policy?

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none. Where did the Vatican's wealth come from?

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So your upset with the pope for not instituting state programs to redistribute wealth despite him not having the power to institute such programs?

And as tele pointed out, he has publicly scolded opulent priests,

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No, I asked how much of the Vatican's wealth he had redistributed. It has zero to do with the governments of the respective states the Vatican took the money from. If he is going to get all morally superior, he ought to start in his own back yard and redistribute the Vatican's billions and direct churches in poor countries to divest themselves as well. Scolding doesn't mean shit.