Two can play at that game. Let's just say that the Catholic Church is not immune from self centered clergy.
I've not yet seen a Catholic or Orthodox church building emblazoned with the name of the pastor in 24" letters on the side of the building.
I've not yet seen a Catholic or Orthodox priest (and the apartments at "HQ" buildings for popes, metropolitans and patriarchs don't come close) living in a multimillion dollar mansion.
I've never seen a Catholic or Orthodox priest break down in tears to beg for money on their "talk show."
Need I continue?
San Antonio Express-News/June 20, 2003
By Analisa Nazareno
As the nonprofit organization's president, Hagee drew $540,000 in compensation, as well as an additional $302,005 in compensation for his position as president of Cornerstone Church, according to GETV's tax statements.
He also received $411,561 in benefits from GETV, including contributions to a retirement package for highly paid executives the IRS calls a "rabbi trust," so named because the first beneficiary of such an irrevocable trust was a rabbi.
The John Hagee Rabbi Trust includes a $2.1 million 7,969-acre ranch outside Brackettville, with five lodges, including a "main lodge" and a gun locker. It also includes a manager's house, a smokehouse, a skeet range and three barns.
Taken together, his payment package, $842,005 in compensation and $414,485 in benefits, was one of the highest, if not the highest, pay package for a nonprofit director in the San Antonio area in 2001.