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John Lieblang's avatar

I knew about the church tax, but did not realize that parishes would not baptize or perform the other sacraments unless you paid the tax. This seems, how shall we say, not super evangelical and doesn't seem to be too far off from selling the sacraments. Would be interested in reading or listening on the podcast if anyone in the church/Vatican has commented on this practice of denying the sacraments to non-payers.

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James Fee's avatar

I would be interested to know from a Canon Law perspective, how the requirement to pay the Church take lest the sacraments be denied would square with prohibitions on simony

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