Zone1 Pastor Daniel W. Merrick, jailed on over 880 felony counts of child porn

[Grumblenuts]

After gaining permission from the Vatican, Burhans underwent a comprehensive of bringing the Church into the 21st century. A live database provides a visual of all its land holdings.

Total for the Catholic Church: 177,000,000 acres

Conclusion: The Catholic Church owns the most land, far more than McDonald’s and billionaire Bill Gates.

Does the Catholic Church pay real estate taxes on any of that land?

Churches, like all charities and virtually all nonprofits, are not subject to local property taxes.

Charity?

noun

1. 1.
   an organization set up to provide help and raise money for those in need.
   "the charity provides practical help for homeless people"
   2.
   the voluntary giving of help, typically in the form of money, to those in need.
   "the care of the poor must not be left to private charity"

Nonprofit?

adjective

1. not making or conducted primarily to make a profit.
   "charities and other nonprofit organizations"
   

noun
NORTH AMERICAN

1. a nonprofit organization.
   "I spent the next six years working for small nonprofits"

 

[Ivan88]

So the guy likes pictures of children even naked ones. What's the big deal?

As for churches and taxes, most of them are incorporated as creatures of the state for "limited liability" and some tax breaks. Thus they are not part of the Kingdom of the Maker of all Life and Love.