BYP - BREAKING NEWS Within the Mormon Church

[Philo Sofee]

https://youtu.be/09Ek49Lp4_Q

This just in! The pressure on leadership is mounting, and their response is classic chichenshit. A TOTAL media fast... This is my response. Come enjoy a 6 minute chuckle...

[drumdude]

You hit the nail on the head in the first 15 seconds. This rabbit hole likely goes much deeper and will eventually come out.

[Shulem]

Feds fine Mormon church for illicitly hiding $32 billion investment fund behind shell companies

Mormon Church to pay fine to settle charges it hid an approximately $32 billion investment fund

Mormon church fined for scheme to hide $32 billion investment portfolio

[Shulem]

General Conference, President of the Church, October 1997

I think I will leave the text that I prepared and just talk with you a little bit, and express my deep appreciation to you.

We need these conferences. We need them to remind us of our responsibilities and obligations. We must never forget that spirituality must be the dominant feature of the Church.

A recent magazine article praised us as a well-run financial institution of great wealth. It grossly exaggerated the figures.

The money the Church receives from faithful members is consecrated. It is the Lord’s purse. Our Church facilities are money consuming and not money producing. We are not a financial institution. We are The Church of Jesus Christ. The funds for which we are responsible involve a sacred trust to be handled with absolute honesty and integrity, and with great prudence as the dedicated consecrations of the people.

We feel a tremendous responsibility to you who make these contributions. We feel an even greater responsibility to the Lord whose money this is.

[Dr Moore]

I dunno professor. Maybe this bishop is trying to keep people from seeing this devastating media coverage. Is there any evidence this weeklong media fast extends beyond one ward? Surely we would all agree there is a spectrum of conservatism to liberalism among bishops.

[Philo Sofee]

I dunno professor. Maybe this bishop is trying to keep people from seeing this devastating media coverage. Is there any evidence this weeklong media fast extends beyond one ward? Surely we would all agree there is a spectrum of conservatism to liberalism among bishops.

Yes indeed. We now know however that at least one ward is doing the tap dancing, and I am sure that bishop is asking for help from the Stake President.... have no idea where it stops. I think we will hear more and more through time.