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so how does the whole payscheme thing for clergy work, anyway?

  • 11-07-2011 4:53pm
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    Asry
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    I was talking to my mom about this other day and had to conclude that really, I didn't know. We were talking about the very beautiful Georg Gänswein, and how his hobbies include skiing and flying planes. What would he get paid? Or what do PPs and your run-of-the-mill clergy get paid? Or is it house and meals etc only? I know sometimes it varies from order to order, so do they (the Vatican, I mean) just not pay some of the orders and give it to the Jesuits instead or.... I'm just confused, really, as to how it all works. Does the pope get paid? Do cardinals? Or is there just communal money? I probably sound like I'm being really bitter and sarcastic, I realise, but I don't intend to come off like that - I genuinely don't know.


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  • #2
    gimmebroadband
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    The salary of a Roman Catholic priest depends upon many factors. In the United States, the first major factor is whether the priest is a diocesan (secular) priest or a professed (order) priest. Diocesan priests who live "in the world" and generally are responsible for taking care of parish churches receive a salary from their parish to keep for personal use (savings, retirement, automobile, vacations, charity, etc.). The diocese will set this salary and usually there will be a multiplier or other incentives for years served, the size of the parish, the oversight of a Catholic school, or other factors. In the U.S., priests pay taxes on this salary as everyone else does. (Actually, priests pay more than their share as they have to pay both halves of social security... strangely enough, they are 'employees' with respect to federal and state taxes, but 'self employed' with respect to social security.)

    Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_salary_of_a_Catholic_priest#ixzz1RpCa71LR


  • #3
    prinz
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    This article gives a decent breakdown of average salaries in some areas..

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/8000-gap-in-priests-salary-lottery-299605.html


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    Plowman
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    prinz
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    Plowman wrote: »
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    I know for the Pope he gets no formal 'salary' at all (unless you count living expenses etc) when a Pope dies a nominal ceremonial wage is buried with him, three coins per year of service (the coins had to have been minted during the year in question) I think it is, one gold, one silver, one copper. From Wiki..
    Three bags containing gold, silver, and copper euro coins were placed beside the body. Each bag contained one coin for each year in Pope John Paul II's reign, the only monetary compensation he received for his service as pope, which totaled to about €100 (worth US$141).


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