[Mark was here]

I’m not Catholic, but I would think funding one order simply frees up funds to subsidize another. If you want change your only real tool is your checkbook. Once you give money without a contract stating where it will be spent, you have no control. All you can control is not funding what you think goes again at your values.

[MSF BU]

Not at all. It’s the difference between sending cash to colleges...Hillsdale versus Brown for instance.

[ebb tide]

Not when there’s only one, true Church: the Catholic Church.

[cloudmountain]

I’m not Catholic, but I would think funding one order simply frees up funds to subsidize another. If you want change your only real tool is your checkbook. Once you give money without a contract stating where it will be spent, you have no control. All you can control is not funding what you think goes again at your values.

True, true, true!
I give to Catholic charities because I know that 95% of the money goes to the people it's supposed to help. Nuns, brothers, friars, etc., work for the love of God and draw no salaries like lay people do. Priests do get a salary but it's not like they get "Silicon Valley" wages. They are given room and board, but that isn't the same as a salary.

Nuns take vows of poverty; priests don't. Priests rarely live ostentatiously, unless they are bishops and cardinals...and even then, like Pope Frances, MAY "take the bus to work" if they choose.
Other charities, like the Red Cross, veterans groups, etc., for example, have to PAY salaries to the folks who work there, which is fair. They don't do it for free, so only 5% of the money goes to the people who need it.

Those are just the nature of the charities.

[Campion]

I’m not Catholic, but I would think funding one order simply frees up funds to subsidize another.

Religious orders generally are self-funding, or they don't exist. They don't get some regular paycheck from Rome, or from their local bishop. Most of them run farms, make an sell some sort of craft, etc.