WearyOne
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Mon Apr-04-05 10:43 AM
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how much does a Pope get paid ? |
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anyone know ? I read he didn't leave a will.
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Mon Apr-04-05 10:47 AM
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1. Maybe he doesn't get "paid", but gets |
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anything he could want or need. I mean, the pope seems to live like royalty.
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Mon Apr-04-05 11:10 AM
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10. Exactly, he's taken a vow of poverty, which means he has no |
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property of his own, although his apartment is lavishly furnished. All belongs to the church. So he lives like a potentate, but it's not really HIS. Nice dodge.
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Mon Apr-04-05 01:06 PM
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15. It has been my understanding priests don't vow poverty |
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It's always been my understanding that priests are not required to take a vow of poverty. Hence, the ever increasing finery of the uniform and the ever increasing lavishness of a priest's living standard the higher up the corporate ladder he ascends.
Nuns, on the other hand, do take a vow of poverty and a vow of submission to papal authority. Thus, you'll never see a nun in anything other than the standard "habit", riding around in a limosine, or living in elegant circumstance like some priests and all bishops and cardinals.
The Catholic church is an onerously patriarchal system.
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Mon Apr-04-05 10:47 AM
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2. Enough for subsistence I think |
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If I remember correctly, the priests in my diocese usually made something like 12-14k per year. However, housing is usually provided so their costs are food and other items.
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Mon Apr-04-05 10:50 AM
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3. I don't know, but I would think that he gets all of his needs . . . |
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taken care of and would have little use for a salary . . .
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Mon Apr-04-05 10:52 AM
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4. Why, are you going to send the Vatican your resume? |
WearyOne
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Mon Apr-04-05 11:16 AM
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12. will they advertise the vacancy ? |
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Mon Apr-04-05 10:53 AM
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5. You should wait until after the second or third interview... |
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Edited on Mon Apr-04-05 10:54 AM by Orsino
...before asking that question, when you're certain that they want to hire you.
Edit: Okay, La Fuega beat me to it.
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Mon Apr-04-05 10:53 AM
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6. Minimum wage, plus tips |
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Health and dental benefits as well.
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Mon Apr-04-05 10:55 AM
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7. The job is very profitable |
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The Pope gets all the wafers and wine he wants.
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Mon Apr-04-05 10:59 AM
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Mon Apr-04-05 11:09 AM
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9. The Pope is richer than God. I've been there |
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The Vatican holds acres and acres of solid gold objects and art stacked to the rafters in dusty warehouses. Stuff that's been there for hundreds of years, so much no one person could even look at all the stuff in a lifetime and it pours in every day from poor people all over the world, thinking the V needs more of their sacrifices to get into heaven. The place is 1000 times as opulent as the Hearst castle.
x( :evilfrown: No wonder I'm an atheist :mad:
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WearyOne
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Mon Apr-04-05 11:16 AM
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11. yeh but he can't sell it can he ? |
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or probably even move it into his own room
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Mon Apr-04-05 01:34 PM
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18. Exactly. The Pope owns virtually nothing. |
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Mon Apr-04-05 11:56 AM
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14. The stuff has been there for hundreds of years...... |
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So it's not like they are actively buying the stuff.
The Pope doesn't wear fine fashion. He wears the same garments over and over again. The Pope (like all ordained Catholics) has taken a vow of poverty. He doesn't eat extravagant meals.
I'm sorry to hear that you are an atheist because the Church at one point acquired some art and built some over extravagant places of worship.
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Mon Apr-04-05 11:48 AM
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13. That wealth = origins of celibacy |
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As a number of posters point out, the Pope lives extremely richly, but none of the art, gold, libraries, property and furnishings are his, so he has nothing to leave to any relatives, but the Church reclaims all.
The purpose of his celibacy is related to this lifetime wealth. If the Pope had children, the old reasoning went, he would be tempted to convert the churches wealth to his own, so he could leave it to his family.
Celibacy means he has no spouse and therefore no heirs, and he is not tempted to convert the property to his own.
The original purpose of celibacy had less to do with sex, or having a wife or partner than with assuring he had no SONS.
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Mon Apr-04-05 01:15 PM
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16. He doesn't need any money...The Vatican pays for anything he wants. |
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Mon Apr-04-05 01:31 PM
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17. I doubt he had any money. |
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While he lives in a very nice place, he has very few possessions of his own despite what many people on this forum tend to think.
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