Church Hierarchy Feeling Some Much-Needed Financial Pain

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Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 21:00
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This is why I send money every month DIRECTLY to the fuel oil company that supplies our Church.

 

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  1. So your parish does not include that in their assessment calculations as a contribution-in-kind? Different dioceses vary with each other as to how these matters are handled.

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Good article. Good advice. No $$$ to Bishops annual fund for sure in order to get their outspoken attention re-directed to Bergoglian heresies.

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The Council of Constance infallibly repudiated tithe and offering boycotts, even when the boycott is well-intentioned. In response to John Wycliffe, the Council specifically forbade “each and every Catholic henceforth, under pain of anathema, to preach, teach, or hold . . . [that] people may withhold tithes, offerings and other private alms from unworthy disciples of Christ.” [Council of Constance, Session 15 (July 6, 1415), error 41]. See also, [Ibid., Session 8 (May 4, 1415), error 18] (condemning that “tithes are purely alms, and parishioners can withhold them at will on account of their prelates’ sins.”) Further, the Council condemned redirecting the tithe away from the secular clergy towards other ministries. [Ibid, error 38]. The Council’s decisions were affirmed and promlugated in Martin V’s bull Inter cunctas on February 22, 1418.

For more, see https://www.catholicstand.com/withholding-tithes-church-heretical/

 

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  1. The piece that Mr Young cited is his own post on the topic. By all means read it, but also read the comments wherein most of his readership refute his arguments. One of the six Precepts of the Church, binding on us all, is to "support the work of the Church". We must examine and make prudential decisions about our tithes lest we "support the demolition of the Church". While it's quite true that ultimately we don't own our money (nor any of our other possessions for that matter), we are stewards of those resources. I believe the Lord will call us to account if we blindly fork over the bucks to the Wuerls and Cupiches of the Church.

     
     
  2. Don’t forget “Nighty-night, baby,” sponsor of struggling Italian male models who wish to learn English, or something like that.

     
     
  3. The question isn't one of whether to "withhold tithes", the question involves where exactly to direct them.

    One may not "boycott the Church" but one may direct one's financial support to various ministries within the Church. I don't think anyone here is suggesting that giving to the Church be stopped entirely, but rather that giving be directed to worthy priests and ministries.

     
     
  4. You put it very well. The Diocese insists we use their employees who live 200 miles away and for whom we must provide room and board to do a major repointing job of the Church's stonework when there a local stonemasons available. One day I saw one the the Diocese's employees painting a 8X16 shed with a 2 inch brush. It is not a sin to get the best value for the money I give to the Church. It is a sin to subsidize their waste.   

 

 

 

 

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I am definitely behind staring NOChurch. 

Whatever the Council of Constance may have taught about this, I am sure that they did not mean one ought to give money to insititutions that actively pervert the teachings of the Catholic Church, even if they are run by clergymen. It would further seem that supporting the work of the Church must simultaneously include actively refusing support to the enemies of the Church, among whom nowadays are reckoned a vast number of priests and bishops.