Real estate holdings alone,
Could assure these children live.
How can pious men condone
This crass reluctance to give?
Artwork on Vatican walls,
Hang to the Church’s great shame.
When any starving child falls,
At her altars lay the blame.
Clerics make their arguments
That the Church must remain strong,
To retain its influence,
In opposing all that’s wrong.
Yet, payoff funds and court fees
Church leaders manage to find,
When the pedophile disease
Bares priests of an evil kind.
Granted, some financial base
Is needed for spreading good,
But it points out flagrant disgrace,
When the scope is understood.
Untold wealth, does the Church hoard,
With approval of its flock,
While children’s deaths are ignored,
Despite righteous papal talk.
