>Why is the catholic church panhandling in this way? Surely they can afford to do it themselves. For the same reason funded startup's use crowd funding. It dem

>Why is the catholic church panhandling in this way? Surely they can afford to do it themselves. For the same reason funded startup's use crowd funding. It demonstrates that this is something a lot of people care about and builds community buy-in around a cause. The people that run this digitization program at the vatican have bosses too and they need to justify that their project matters and deserves more time and attention.