Look, you missed the point . . . I wasn't implying that clergy were bad people b/c they weren't all poor (nor does the existence of exceptions disprove the rule). I was implying that it is fallacious to imply that, because politicians aren't poor, they don't perform their job in a proper fashion.
The days of the part-time congressman are over - just as the days where every member of the clergy was expected to live the life of a Chaucerian pastoral preacher . . . that was the implication.
PS - in the last decade, more Protestant ministers have been implicated in improper sex scandels than Catholic . . . that was more a throw-away comment than anything (source: CNN)
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Originally posted by Winterbloom
On the note, yes, there are poor clergy people.
Most nuns in the Roman Catholic Church are poverty line, especially small groups. They recieve no money from the church and must exist on the charity of Catholic laypeople.
Fransiscans hold true to their vow of poverty. Most of the priests with whom I've had the pleasure to work aren't rolling around in it, either.
In other words, dear friends, think before you type. There are some people who take vows of poverty and the sex scandal in the Church very seriously.
~Emma
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