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Originally Posted by epitome
I know personally know two members of the clergy. One is Catholic and the other is I don't know, a Christian or some spinoff. Neither are hurting. The Catholic priest lives in a nice house on church grounds and drives a new Cadillac. The other one lives off church grounds but he's paying cash for his son to go to a decent university and his son always had new clothes from Hollister (son is gay, oh the irony), iPhone, iPad and every other photo on Facebook is him eating out. He does not work as that would interfere with his studies.
If that is poor sign me up!
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Catholic Priests live in housing provided for them by the church. They are paid very little. Everything they have is provided by the church, as they are lifetime, lifelong servants. They don't actually own much. Sometimes they own their cars, however.
And what is the level of education for this other man you mention? I know that my Pastor has a doctorate level degree. His wife has a law degree. Both of them also teach part time at the local university. My pastor is not rich, but he is not poor, and our church tries to pay full time staff members approximately 80% of the amount they would make in the general employment arena based on their level of education. But our church has 2300 members.
My father pastored a church of about 100. He made very, very little.