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Pope© is now copyrighted

The Vatican made a declaration on the protection of the figure of the Pope on Saturday morning. The statement seeks to establish and safeguard the name, image and any symbols of the Pope as being expressly for official use of the Holy See unless otherwise authorized. [source]

Bloggers are puzzled about the reason behind the move. May I purpose a reason.

To effectively control the image of the product sold by a business, including the reputation of the product, it is common for business to protect the name of the product through the use of trademarks and copyright. Churches are business, profit generating business. Seeing the competition increasing (various christian churches and islam competition in the same space) and shrinking market size (increasing number of people becoming atheist against their god), it is a natural knee-jerk reaction from a business point of view to protect the business's image - which is represented by the Pope in the case of the Vatican.

Any other possible reason? Please leave in the comment.

Church is a business ... for the parishioners

Correct me if I am wrong. This is what I read from a post in Kiva's forum.

All money collected in the donation basket at any church goes to the church. So it's not a charitable donation at all, it's a very selfish donation. The church mostly serves it's parishioners, not the community. Most of the good work that churches do in the community comes from volunteers from the church and targeted money that is solicited separately for that particular need, whether a Christmas Drive or a Food Drive. However, to qualify for the tax free status, churches are supposed to demonstrate that they do work in the community that benefits the community. As long as they do that, they can keep every last dime that goes in the collection basket to build a mansion if they want to, and, which they mostly do. - Mai Dao-Horton