Oh no. Cardinals are having their paychecks cut. Haven't these poor creatures been persecuted enough?
But seriously, 60,000 Euros annually is their paycheck? What happened to living like birds in the field as Jesus proclaimed?
But seriously, 60,000 Euros annually is their paycheck? What happened to living like birds in the field as Jesus proclaimed?
Quote:Vatican cuts monthly pay for Catholic cardinals in Rome
The Vatican is cutting the already shrinking pay packages of cardinals who head the Catholic Church's top offices in Rome by about 10% or 500 euros ($540) a month as the pope pursues a "zero deficit" agenda of greater thrift.
The cardinals will no longer receive two monthly allowances that are often used to defray the cost of hiring personal secretaries, said a note written by Maximino Caballero Ledo, a Spanish layman who heads the Vatican's finance ministry.
They affect only cardinals who serve as heads of the Vatican's various departments in Rome: about 20 of the world's more than 230 "princes of the Church".
Cardinals in Rome receive a monthly stipend believed to be around 4,000 to 5,000 euros ($4,300 to $5,400), according to Italian media reports. The scrapped allowances are estimated at around 500 euros.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vat...024-10-25/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
