I thought the article explained how it works pretty decently... if you mean can someone explain why anybody thought it was a good idea in the first place, 🤷♀️
I'm amazed at the fact that the bishops seem to have so little faith in the Catholic laity. If the church tax were abolished, wouldn't the lay Catholics of Germany step up their voluntary contributions?
Oh wait--the article points out that Saxony-Anhalt has 66,000 officially registered, church-tax-paying Catholics, but only 7,000 of them show up for Mass. So 66,000 people pay and only 7,000 show up? Nice work (for the bishops) if you can get it.
Thank you for this very helpful report explaining the Church’s fiscal situation in Germany. Frankly, makes me appreciate the constitutional separation of church and state here in the U.S.
Respectfully, believe the Bishop of the Magdeburg Diocese should be far more worried that he has only 7,000 faithful Catholics attending Sunday Mass in his Diocese than he evidently is about losing state funding.
My humble alternative funding suggestions to the Bishop would be (1) try tithing to substitute for the church tax and (2) encourage the German Church at the national level to help with funding at the diocesan level by freeing up the euros presently being absolutely wasted on its reprehensible synodaling infrastructure and activity.
Then again maybe it’s just Irme Stetter-Karp in dominatrix mode forcing (most of) the German episcopate clad in gimp suits to lick her stiletto boots while she holds them on a leash. Also known as the Synodal Way…
"When they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. The stalk of grain that forms no head can yield no flour. Even if it could, strangers would swallow it."-Hosea 8:7
Can someone explain the church tax to me?
I thought the article explained how it works pretty decently... if you mean can someone explain why anybody thought it was a good idea in the first place, 🤷♀️
Just sounds so odd as I am in the U.S.
Could AfD get themselves voted in to the Synodal Way? Would be hilarious.
I'm amazed at the fact that the bishops seem to have so little faith in the Catholic laity. If the church tax were abolished, wouldn't the lay Catholics of Germany step up their voluntary contributions?
Oh wait--the article points out that Saxony-Anhalt has 66,000 officially registered, church-tax-paying Catholics, but only 7,000 of them show up for Mass. So 66,000 people pay and only 7,000 show up? Nice work (for the bishops) if you can get it.
Thank you for this very helpful report explaining the Church’s fiscal situation in Germany. Frankly, makes me appreciate the constitutional separation of church and state here in the U.S.
Respectfully, believe the Bishop of the Magdeburg Diocese should be far more worried that he has only 7,000 faithful Catholics attending Sunday Mass in his Diocese than he evidently is about losing state funding.
My humble alternative funding suggestions to the Bishop would be (1) try tithing to substitute for the church tax and (2) encourage the German Church at the national level to help with funding at the diocesan level by freeing up the euros presently being absolutely wasted on its reprehensible synodaling infrastructure and activity.
‘An ecumenical group on “BDSM and Christianity.”’
…Wait what?
Then again maybe it’s just Irme Stetter-Karp in dominatrix mode forcing (most of) the German episcopate clad in gimp suits to lick her stiletto boots while she holds them on a leash. Also known as the Synodal Way…
But seriously, what?
"When they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. The stalk of grain that forms no head can yield no flour. Even if it could, strangers would swallow it."-Hosea 8:7