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jacquesm is right, the Polish church is a complete racket. A small example—my father wanted to be buried in the family crypt in Warsaw. This meant having to pay
by idlewords 9y ago
jacquesm is right, the Polish church is a complete racket. A small example—my father wanted to be buried in the family crypt in Warsaw. This meant having to pay off his parish (he was not a churchgoer, but everyone is assigned a parish), and then pay off the parish the cemetery was in to allow the transfer (in addition to all the regular burial fees).
The most popular conservative priest in Poland drives a Maybach.
Priests in Poland will go door to door once or twice a year basically collecting envelopes. Not paying them complicates your life.
- tptacek 9y agoThat is deeply fucked up.
- jacquesm 9y agoNot as bad as in Romania, but there it is the Orthodox church rather than the Roman Catholic one. They're spending 100 million euros fleeced from some of the poorest people in the EU on a new church right now just to it will be the biggest in a country that could really use that money in better ways. https://www.romania-insider.com/romania-peoples-salvation-cathedral/ https://www.romania-insider.com/romania-peoples-salvation-ca... Not bad, money straight from the Romanian government to the Church to build more churches. http://www.ibtimes.com/why-poverty-stricken-romania-building-so-many-churches-1375913 http://www.ibtimes.com/why-poverty-stricken-romania-building...