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How is the Catholic Church Funded in Ireland?

  • 16-08-2011 03:56PM
    #1
    MrTimewalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭


    Straightforward question!

    Thanks in advance


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  • #2
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    By paedophiles and rapists. There's your AH answer.


  • #3
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    Collections, and dead people leaving them money.


  • #4
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    This should be good


  • #5
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    They control our oil reserves and sell them to the highest bidder.


  • #6
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    chin_grin wrote: »
    By paedophiles and rapists. There's your AH answer.

    i want to do a bit of travelling after college reckon they would fund that?


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  • #7
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    they download and illegally bootleg DVDs


  • #8
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    There are two collections every week

    One goes to the Church.
    Used to be the case the parish kept the money but then you have large parishes and small parishes and it's unequal.
    Goes to the diocese they sort it out

    The second collection is for a charity, it can change regularly

    And yes, people leave money to the parish in their wills
    Or maybe donate land, our graveyard was nearly full so a landowner donated land and the tidy towns committee landscaped it


  • #9
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    that money was resting in my account until i moved it along.


  • #10
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    They are funded by the people.

    What do you think they do with those collections at mass?


  • #11
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Childrens tears, sold to billionaires for their life giving power


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  • #12
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    The Catholic Church in Ireland is a money laundering operation set up by the international jewry and financiers funded primarily by the Rothschild dynasty.


  • #13
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Since my father in law died, my mammy in law isn't as well off as she was for one reason or another, so we've all been chipping in and helping her out, everyone that is except the church, they turn up regular as clockwork at her front door to collect their god tax.

    Silly bint pays them as well.


  • #14
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Samich wrote: »
    Collections, and dead people leaving them money.

    Dead people can't do anything except be dead.


  • #15
    MrTimewalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭MrTimewalk


    is it JUST from charity?

    There's method to me asking this question btw.

    I know they get funding from church collections and I forgot they get left stuff of course but I'm wondering if they have any other funding coming from government etc.


  • #16
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    prinz wrote: »
    The Catholic Church in Ireland is a money laundering operation set up by the international jewry and financiers funded primarily by the Rothschild dynasty.
    Hitler approves.

    :pac:


  • #17
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    MrTimewalk wrote: »
    is it JUST from charity?

    There's method to me asking this question btw.

    I know they get funding from church collections and I forgot they get left stuff of course but I'm wondering if they have any other funding coming from government etc.

    I don't think they get money from government, but the churches usually invest their money quite well.

    I worked with four churches in the uk helping set up a youth drop in centre and I was amazed how much property they had.


  • #18
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    MrTimewalk wrote: »
    I know they get funding from church collections and I forgot they get left stuff of course but I'm wondering if they have any other funding coming from government etc.
    :eek:

    AH would have even more threads about the Catholic Church if that was the case. It'd be like those "Dole scroungers sapping our money" threads except with a Catholic spin to it. A 2in1 thread if you will.


  • #19
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    They sell indulgences because they're so good they have a surpluss of goodishness.

    It's a supply and demand thing.


  • #20
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Hank_Jones wrote: »
    They are funded by the people.

    What do you think they do with those collections at mass?

    but no one goes to mass now accept the elderly with no money :confused:


  • #21
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    The elderly have more money then most of us


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  • #22
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    Yeah - collections (it varies from diocese to diocese - in some, the regular collection is for the parish (not the priest), in others, as someone else said it's pooled together to balance rish/poor parishes, etc. A percentage goes to central diocesan funds, etc).

    Wills can be to the benefit of individual parishes or the diocese.

    Property sales

    Same as other churches, I guess - and the bigger charities.


  • #23
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    People giving them money?


  • #24
    cosmicfart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭cosmicfart


    MrTimewalk wrote: »
    is it JUST from charity?

    There's method to me asking this question btw.

    I know they get funding from church collections and I forgot they get left stuff of course but I'm wondering if they have any other funding coming from government etc.


    They make their money buy selling innocent gullible people fantastical stories of make believable science fiction.












    oh and theres a constant boom in the rent-a-boy market which the Catholic church regulates


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,867 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Parishes also employ corporate fundraising companies for large scale drives like roof resortations and church repairs.


  • #26
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,861 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Since my father in law died, my mammy in law isn't as well off as she was for one reason or another, so we've all been chipping in and helping her out, everyone that is except the church, they turn up regular as clockwork at her front door to collect their god tax.

    Silly bint pays them as well.

    Let the Gods pay the God Tax, I pay the Homer Tax


  • #27
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    How is the Catholic Church Funded in Ireland?

    They have a dude, he used to be great at multiplying amounts of loaves and fishes.

    They upskilled him to Euros.


  • #28
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Parishes also employ corporate fundraising companies for large scale drives like roof resortations and church repairs.

    Really? In Irish parishes? I'd suspect it that might happen in big cities on big projects (Westminster Cathedral in London springs to mind) but I've never seen it here. I'm curious, where have you seen this happening in Ireland?


  • #29
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    Saila wrote: »
    but no one goes to mass now accept the elderly with no money :confused:

    Neither of these points are true though.....that's the thing.


  • #30
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    Saila wrote: »
    but no one goes to mass now accept the elderly with no money :confused:

    I will only accept the elderly if they have money


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  • #31
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    In addition to weekly collections there are quarterly (I think?) collections that go towards paying priests' salaries. And people who have weddings & funerals make a contribution to the priest.

    Many priests & nuns also have other part- or full-time jobs: nursing, teaching, writing, singing etc. Not sure whether they can keep all/part of the salaries they earn for these or what the story is.


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