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Act_of_Reparation

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5. To be fair, there's a big difference between diocesan and parish finances

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 12:05 PM

Mar 2014

Individual churches are likely to be pretty poor, even in staggeringly wealthy dioceses. Not only do bigtime donors make their contributions at the diocesan level, but money also tends to flow "up" from the parishes to their parent diocese. There has also been some tell of dioceses confiscating donations meant for individual parishes, but I don't know how commonplace that is.

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Good grief -- I honestly had no idea! [View all] theHandpuppet Mar 2014 OP

The Roman Catholic Church? Hypocritical? Surely they jest! Act_of_Reparation Mar 2014 #1

Well, at least they pay their taxes. Oh, wait.... mr blur Mar 2014 #2

My thought exactly. nt Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #8

I am repeatedly told 'most churches are poor and barely scrape by'. AtheistCrusader Mar 2014 #3

Yeah, I hear that line all the time theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #4

To be fair, there's a big difference between diocesan and parish finances Act_of_Reparation Mar 2014 #5

By design. AtheistCrusader Mar 2014 #6

But ... but ... Popey washed a guy's feet! Arugula Latte Mar 2014 #7

I am confused. Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #9

Accounting is not my field and I don't know Australian law, TxDemChem Mar 2014 #10

That's the sad part of this. Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #11

I know! I had to chuckle when you couldn't make heads or tails of it. TxDemChem Mar 2014 #12

And that is just what the church acts like it is doing. Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #13

They are frauding and perpetrating. TxDemChem Mar 2014 #15

Something seems a little off. defacto7 Mar 2014 #14

But the more you dig, the more you find out just how deep those pockets are theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #16

My eyeballs have popped out so far now they're knockin' my nose... theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #17

It does make sense, it's just that defacto7 Mar 2014 #20

Robert Heinlein nailed it... onager Mar 2014 #18

Hard to wrong quoting RAH! Jgarrick Mar 2014 #19