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Re:Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available ... by davidwihl on Thursday October 23, 2014 @12:47PM (#8499155)
I think the Vatican has some prior experience with crowdfunding.
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Re:Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available ... by pavlov on Thursday October 23, 2014 @03:03PM (#8500070)
Fortunately Kickstarter is not a store, so the Council of Trent [1] and Pius V should have no problem with offering indulgences as perks.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence#Council_of_Trent

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Re:Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available ... by simonebrunozzi on Thursday October 23, 2014 @03:13PM (#8500116)
LOL. You are definitively right :)
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