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To: ChicagoConservative27

Priests don’t take a vow of poverty and if they come from wealthy family or have wealth of their own prior to taking holy orders, they get to keep it. And they can earn on the side too, though that may be frowned on. Not saying this is the case here, just that him having wealth doesn’t necessarily mean he stole it.


4 posted on 11/29/2024 5:02:02 PM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Only religious order priests take a vow of poverty, not diocesan priests.


5 posted on 11/29/2024 5:06:43 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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