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Date Posted: 18:36:11 07/07/01 Sat
Author: <font color="plumb">NKLS Cody</font>
Subject: Can he really do that???
In reply to: Faerie 's message, "Faerie Hands Back His Beloved Hat" on 14:33:54 07/07/01 Sat

On the very day we find out the extremely evil pope gets a monthly paycheck, our resident popemeister abdicates and leaves us in the lurch. Please reconcider, or take up SM's wonderful offer and become pope emeritus. It would be a shame to see the big pope hat float forever in cyber space... ++{[ ... but it would prolly get good reception.

Saturday July 7 11:11 AM ET

A Papal Paycheck? Yes. Well, Maybe



VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - He's the most famous chief executive officer in the world but how much does Pope John Paul make?

No-one seems to know what his salary is and if they do, they're not saying.

The subject of a papal paycheck came up at a news conference Friday at which the Vatican said it had registered a surplus for the eighth straight year in 2000.

When a reporter asked if the pope gets a salary, Cardinal Sergio Sebastiani, president of the Vatican's economic prefecture, replied:

``I think so, why shouldn't he? It's normal. The Italian president gets a salary, why shouldn't the pope? But I don't know anything about it, how big it is or how it's decided.''

Vatican sources say the pope gives away nearly all the funds at his disposal to charities, churches and relief organizations.

He is not believed to have handled cash to buy anything for the past 23 years. He was elected in 1978 to become not only leader of the Roman Catholic Church but also the monarch of Vatican City.

At the news conference Sebastiani said the Vatican had registered a surplus of $8.5 million in 2000, its eighth straight year in the black.

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  • Say it ain't so, Pope Faerie! -- Kelli, 19:02:10 07/07/01 Sat
  • Holy Smoke! -- Kathy, 11:14:26 07/08/01 Sun

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