Posted on 05/21/2021 7:29:04 PM PDT by ebb tide
The letter, published by Italian media, contends employees are the victims of widespread workplace injustices.
VATICAN CITY — A group of Vatican employees has written a letter to Pope Francis, expressing their discontent over what they say are labor injustices at the Vatican and calling for an overhaul of a system that risks becoming increasingly “anti-meritocratic and disincentivizing.”
The signatories, who have not supplied their names, also express “bitterness” over recent pay cuts and the way they were made and resent what they say are exceptionally high wages and perks given to “lay managers.”
The employees, who point to “the enormous critical issues that characterize the entire system and which causes it to waste a lot of money,” have asked for a meeting with the Holy Father to discuss their concerns, according to the letter reported in Italian media.
Pope Francis issued a decree on March 24 that ordered cardinals to take a 10% pay cut and reduced the salaries of Vatican staff, mainly those who are clergy or religious, from 3% to 8% in order to save jobs — especially those of lay employees with families — in the face of a ballooning budget deficit heightened by the effects of COVID-19 restrictions and lost tourist revenue.
The letter’s signatories credit the Pope for the “honorable purpose” of the pay cuts to “at least partially” cover the budget deficit, but express their “regret and profound discouragement” with the decree, adding that “an attentive reader cannot escape the inconsistencies that still persist in the Vatican and that make this provision too unbalanced to the detriment of honest workers.” They later add that they were “bitter” at not being consulted first.
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Ping
Has he taken down that vatican wall yet?
The World may not yet have become smart enough to support Distributism, but at least the Church should practice it in their own dealings with their workers.
“Okay, finished! Exactly 95 paragraphs!”
“Um, let’s delete a paragraph or two...”
And this moron wants to lecture the world about economics.
Perhaps apocryphal, but I have heard the story that Pope John XXIII was asked, “How many people work at the Vatican?” and the Pontiff replied, “About half of them.”
Letters?
They need to invoke some local thunderstorms....
Always comes down to money - everywhere.
This is awesome. The money is running out.
Indeed. Thus always with leftists. They prattle on about capitalists mistreating workers... and then treat their own employees like garbage.
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