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To: Zhang Fei
What kind of person becomes a priest? For the most part, either a religious person or a greedy one.

Rilly? How does that work? I thought priests lived in plain, drafty rectory buildings and worked 6 days a week (especially Sundays), baptizing babies, witnessing marriages, listening to people's troubles, firing up sullen teenagers, and comforting the dying, sometimes in distant places late at night, but have to get up with their brain on to do a 7 a.m. Mass—for about $25K a year.

If there's an opportunity for the greedy there, let me know. Maybe I missed my calling.

15 posted on 08/22/2012 9:54:05 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: SamuraiScot
Rilly? How does that work? I thought priests lived in plain, drafty rectory buildings and worked 6 days a week (especially Sundays), baptizing babies, witnessing marriages, listening to people's troubles, firing up sullen teenagers, and comforting the dying, sometimes in distant places late at night, but have to get up with their brain on to do a 7 a.m. Mass—for about $25K a year. If there's an opportunity for the greedy there, let me know. Maybe I missed my calling.

Priests can fiddle the accounts, and the greedy ones probably do.

19 posted on 08/22/2012 10:24:47 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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If there's an opportunity for the greedy there, let me know. Maybe I missed my calling.

I know a priest who could use the info as well.

34 posted on 08/22/2012 4:56:28 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Election night is 75 days away.)
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