Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget Deficit

Re:Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget De... by utopian3 on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:22PM (#21767862)

My churches (two previous were Baptist) publish their budgets. My current church has only 16% going to admin costs (building, maintenance, and salary I believe) while everything else went to mission work (we run . Everyone here volunteers their time though, which helps bring costs down. I don’t recall previous budgets, but I think they were closer to 50/50. I guess my current one is unusual, but 10% of 50 mil (according to this article) is surprising to me. That’s the lowest bar I’ve seen

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Re:Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget De... by danShumway on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:04AM (#21769626)

It depends heavily on the church.

I'd agree that church volunteers really do bring costs down though -- and congregational volunteering is just really healthy in general. It encourages members to exercise more agency, to think about service in concrete ways, and to spend more time fellowshipping with each other.

I had a pipe dream that I was going to get some of my local churches to collaborate more on developing/sharing OS software and technical support with each other, particularly around admin, member registries, etc... But I've had difficulty getting it off the ground. Most church members I know aren't technical, so there's just a very large education gap that has to be addressed first.

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Re:Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget De... by scarface74 on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:33PM (#21767920)

From what I could find, on average from 50 - 80% of the church budget goes to church administration.

https://holysoup.com/the-shocking-truth-of-church-budgets/

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