In Limerick a priest has been told
That you can get cash for your gold,
It’s how the wise preacher,
Will pay for a teacher,
To instruct the young minds who’ve enrolled.
John Moynes
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Now that’s a priest I can respect. If the vatican would consider the same then maybe they could finally bring about some change for the positive.
The Vatican make huge money from their world-class museums and galleries – money that funds the church’s mission all over the world.
Meanwhile, people like you moan that the Irish State should continue to pump money into a gallery of no significance (the National Gallery of Ireland) and are happy to allow the Irish State to cut back on fundamental services (such as having enough teachers for a school). Yet here you are firing pop shots at the Vatican because they had the gall to invest in world class artistic excellence over the centuries.
Good to see the church are now asking parents to fund Catholic education. The days of assuming the church will pay for everything and not even get nominal public support for their mission (by a la carte Catholics in contemporary Irish society who are afraid declaring their faith would be “unfashionable”) are coming to an end.
There are a lot of elderly and retired priests and religious who need care and there are missions elsewhere in the world that badly need the Irish church’s surplus assets.
Invest my arse. And where did they get the investment money from?
Canvas, paint and stone costs nothing compared to the value of some of the artworks in the Vatican museum.
Good to see the church are now asking parents to fund Catholic education. The days of assuming the church will pay for everything and not even get nominal public support for their mission
What horsecrap. The Church has had it’s hand out passing the begging bowl since it was founded.
Who pays the teachers salaries? The Dept of Education. Who pays them? People who are not tax exempt (unlike the church).
The church did its best to strangle multi-denominational and non-denominational education in this country, and then acts as if it was filling a void nobody else would step up to.
Catch yerself on.
Yes, that’s right. Teachers teach in the open air on no-man’s land.