You said the Duke study was obviously "bogus", since Catholic priests don't get paid according to parish size. Well, if you'd actually read what I posted, you would have noted that it said exactly that: median salaries of priests "varied only slightly regardless of the parish size."
Another survey recently completed by the National Association of Church Business Administration found similar findings to the Duke study. The average pastor in the Catholic church has a taxable income of $31,465. They also noted that most Catholic priests have no family for which to provide, usually have their room, board and pension covered by their parish, have their seminary training costs covered by the diocese and are compensated for continuing education. For most Protestant pastors, those expenses come out of salaries.
Frankly, I don't get your bitterness and hostility towards a fellow believer in Christ. Maybe you should ask God to help you with that.
Perhaps it is the constant anti-Catholicism of the protestants I have known in Virginia and Indiana that has influenced my mood. The attack on this most beautiful post is a case in point. The implication that we and the Orthodox worship objects is just so completely and obviously false, yet it comes up again and again and again. Anti-Catholic hatred is a form of bigotry every bit as much as antisemitism and racism. No wonder the epicenter of these bigotries is geographically located in the same region of the country.