Why is the pope and the Vatican so wealthy when the nuns have a vow of poverty? Isn't this ultimate hypocrisy

Answer 1

The Church needs money to function and to help others. But the Pope has no personal possessions. When John Paul II died, he had a plain, modest coffin, and had nothing to leave to anyone.

Answer 2

They are not wealthy. The Vatican receives donations from the people for many things. Remember that the Vatican is also a country, with expenses and sometimes they have to provide other places with money for their needs, like for example, the church in Cuba receives many necessary articles from the Vatican.
Besides, for that reason ( to avoid that kind of confusion ) John Paul I refused the tiara and sent it to the museum. The chair that the Pope used was also sent to the museum.
John Paul II just walked through the streets of Rome, wearing tennis shoes, until he suffered the attacks.
If you allow me, before judging somebody, learn about him

Answer 3

Pope isn't wealthy, just lives in nice place, Vatican has so much because people have been donating to it for what, a thousand years. Think of all the great swag you'd have if people were donating to you for a thousand years.

Answer 4

Not all nuns take a vow of poverty and neither do all priests. It all depends to which saint's footsteps they are following in. The vow of poverty is considered going the extra mile when dedicated one's life to the church. Similarly, they can also take a vow of silence. It all depends on which convent/abbey they belong to.

Answer 5

Vow of poverty is not enforced by the Vatican to nuns. It is their personal vow and selfless commitment to their faith. Humility is a strong influence in such belief.

Answer 6

Yes, but then I've found this same hypocrisy in just about every organized religion not just Catholicism

Answer 7

The Roman Catholic institution began some 3-5 hundred years after the existance of christ....................
Now Christianity means to follow Christ, and their are a lot of churches or inst..... that claim they follow Christ...
But a lot of the belief systems of a lot of churches are somewhat contrdictory to the ways of Christ......................
A lot of people also claim to be Christians, some follow his ways and others don't know what that means...........

Answer 8

The entire human world is now in the hands of unenlightened and materialistic factions that trap the mind with "science" and the heart with "religion" and the body with "politics". All of you who merely suffer this regime are obliged to toe the popular line in order to survive in these times and places, but you need not be what you hear and see on the streets and in the daily News.

The pea-witted official intellectuals of our day size up the universe with a standard rule and find it always to be one inch short of Infinity. And they measure Man according to atomic weight, finding him to be worth no more than salt. Therefore, they press the load of unrelieved mortality on the back of every man and woman, while the intellect that mounts and crushes the body is unwilling and unable to understand why we bother to lift a finger.

Scientists without Life! Politicians without Love! Wise Men without a Master! All of you who "speak with authority" and plan our progress as if you invented our very existence! Everything you say is the product of your own self-consciousness and fear. You think that ponderous language and the powers of State grant the weight of Truth to your arguments. You imagine that fast talking will distract us from your dead feet. but everything you say and everything you do is part of an effort to protect yourself from the anger and passion of Man, whose Master you only pretend to be.

The "Authorities" love to be honored and awarded with public ceremony, unquestioning obedience, and tongue-tied respect. They line up inthousands, along with the hypocritical priests who once were in power inthe old world, and they cock their ears, waiting to hear us name them aloud: "Teacher, Master, Doctor, Sovereign Head, Father, Mother, All!"

But all of you who are ordinary and merely alive need not be given the impotent names of worldly power. Your Teacher is the Living Light that moves the world and drives the heart of Man. You are equals, like brothers. And yet you are not like children. Accept no man or woman as your Parent!Grow up to Manhood, serve one another, and understand that your only Source is the Life you inherit with every breath.

Answer 9

Excellent question. It'll be interesting to see the responses.

Answer 10

the man of the house usually keeps the money but cannot actually make a shopping spree!!!