Sounds like he was a prudent business man... Cash and Carry.
If you go into the "religion for sale" business, you have to make sure you get the most for the least. Why should he have tied up a limited resource without some surety?
the RCC could do well with more men like this one!
I wouldn't know about the "religion for sale" business ... the Catholic Church isn't in it. You'll have to look elsewhere if you want to buy yourself an stairway to heaven.