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It can and should do more to use what it has for the good of the poor. I am a Catholic and I have no problem saying that.The Church should strive to be free of all forms of wordliness, which is the greatest threat to its purpose of salvation. Pope Francis said as much in a 2013 homily (Becoming worldly, weak is church's biggest threat, pope says):A worldly church becomes weak, and while people of faith can look after the church, only God "can look evil in the eye and overpower it," he said April 30.Monetary and property wealth are forms of worldliness.I have visited the Vatican, and it is beautiful in a certain way, but one should not think that the genius of Michelangelo and Raphael have captured the essence of God in their works.2 Samuel 7:1-7King David was living in his palace, and the Lord had given him peace from all his enemies around him. Then David said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am living in a palace made of cedar wood, but the Ark of God is in a tent!”Nathan said to the king, “Go and do what you really want to do, because the Lord is with you.”But that night the Lord spoke his word to Nathan, “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lordsays: Will you build a house for me to live in? From the time I brought the Israelites out of Egypt until now I have not lived in a house. I have been moving around all this time with a tent as my home. As I have moved with the Israelites, I have never said to the tribes, whom I commanded to take care of my people Israel, “Why haven’t you built me a house of cedar?”’If the Church has priceless art, items can be held for a long period of time then sold. That's one possible solution, I am sure there are others. The challenge is freeing entrenched attachment to wealth and symbols of status from centuries of establishment.Here is a relevant story from the early life of Saint Francis, as he began to renounce worldly things, and was traveling with his friend, Messer Benard, who would be come the first member of his order, and trying to discern his purpose (Chapter II. Of Friar Bernard of Quintavalle, first companion of St. Francis):Wherefore they presently departed and gat them to the bishop's house; and after they had heard Mass and had continued in prayer until terce, the priest, at the request of St. Francis, took the missal, and having made the sign of the most holy cross, opened it three times in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.At the first opening, they found that saying which Christ spake in the Gospel to the young man which inquired the way of perfection: If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give the to poor and follow Me. At the second opening, they found that saying which Christ spake to the Apostles, when He sent them forth to preach: Take nothing for your journey, neither staff, nor scrip, nor shoes, nor money; intending thereby to teach them that they ought to set all their hope of living upon God, and to turn all their thoughts to preaching the Holy Gospel. At the third opening of the missal they found that saying which Christ spake: If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.Then said St. Francis to Messer Bernard: "Behold the counsel which Christ gives us. Go then, and do thoroughly that which thou hast heard, and blessed be our Lord Jesus Christ who hath vouchsafed to show us His evangelic way". When he had heard this, Messer Bernard departed and sold all that he had; and he was very rich. And with great rejoicing he gave everything to widows, to orphans, to prisoners, to monasteries, to hospitals and to pilgrims; and in everything St. Francis faithfully and providently aided him.We are seeing good changes under Pope Francis. Free showers for the poor via the Vatican housing is inspired! And here's more reforms he's implemented since his election: Eric Stoltz's answer to Catholicism: How has Pope Francis been different from previous popes?Just look at the top item of Eric Stoltz's comprehensive list:He refused to wear ermine-lined capes other popes wore.Let us pray that the Church shed herself of all ermine-lined capes, be they actual or metaphorical. She should resemble the least among us, and therefore be rich in spirit and not in worldliness.