The money people put in the basket on Sunday doesn’t go to Rome.
“The money people put in the basket on Sunday doesn’t go to Rome.”
You are right.
However, turn out on Sunday mass in America translates to richer or learner collection baskets — If someone is just going to church to polish the pew with their a$$ that is one thing, if you are going to church and the message conflicts with your morals and values and feel the church is being “bought out” then there are other churches (not catholic) that don’t feel the need to get involved with something that they have no business being involved in.
The Catholic church “used” to preach that sanctity of life was more precious than “social justice,” until the government started threatening to take away the tax exempt status — Suddenly sanctity of life gives way to politicians that are pro infanticide and pro social justice — No conflict there. I will not step foot in a church where a priest feels that mentioning abortion is murder is objectionable, period.
So message does effect the bottom line and at the end of the day, the church needs money to operate. If the church starts to try and shame people into believing “false prophets” then they can enjoy “no profits,” and that does start to have an impact on the message coming out of Rome.