What's that saying? "Ya can't take it with ya.". Tell me, what is the difference between someone a like Warren Buffett who lives in stunning splendor with lavish homes, vacation villas, surrounded with priceless artwork and jewels, private jets, designer clothing of the finest fabrics, the finest cars, multitudes of yachts available on request, private chefs, sumptuous foods to his pleasing, private gardens, maids to make his bed, clean his toilets, scrub the floors, launder his clothing, valets to assist in his dressing, meetings with the worlds dignitaries all vieing to impress him, millions gathering to hear his every word ready to give their own lives to protect his...wait...the last few couldn't even apply to Buffett. No, the Pope, like those before him, lives as emperors, kings and potentates would. So what does it matter that he has no personal wealth - he has no children to inherit from him - as long as he lives as no other man could ever dream of living?
The point, of course, is that Jesus and his Apostles did not even desire to live this way but gave up all for the cause of the Gospel. I don't think it's incorrect for people to question why such "men of God" need to live so diametrically opposed to the standard Jesus set.
What's really ironic is the criticism and condemnation people like Ted Haggard and Joel Osteen get from Catholics for living in luxury off the donations of their followers when their pope lives in luxury far exceeding Haggard or Osteen off the donations of some billion strong Catholics.
They justify in their church leader the very things they condemn in others. It's do as I say, not as I do mentality.
Exceedingly hypocritical.