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Oct 20, 2022 · Q: Can you please explain what exactly a benefice is, and how it works in the Church today? …I recently endured a tirade from an anti-Catholic evangelical, who among a million other things was bashing the Church for its financial corruption.
Four characteristics are essential to every benefice: (a) the right to revenue from church property, the beneficed cleric being the usufructuary and not the proprietor of the source of his support; (b) a twofold perpetuity, objective and subjective, inasmuch as the source of income must be permanently established and at the same time the appoint...
Even the least suspicion about you is absent in view of your exemplary piety, proven religious sentiments, and your zeal for preserving ecclesiastical discipline whereby what till now was gain for you will in the future be considered a loss for Christ.
A benefice specifically from a church is called a precaria (pl. precariae), such as a stipend, and one from a monarch or nobleman is usually called a fief. A benefice is distinct from an allod, in that an allod is property owned outright, not bestowed by a higher authority.
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A church’s income is the collective donations of individuals. These people either give from money they earn or money they’ve saved. So, when members of your congregation are unemployed, this has a direct impact on your church’s income. Similarly, when they are underemployed (working fewer hours or in a less skilled job than they would want) this im...
Over time we see the prices of most goods and services rise. The rate that this occurs is called inflation. The Federal Reserve Board (“the Fed”) has two stated objectives: 1) maximum employment, and 2) stable prices for the goods and services we all purchase. The Fed has clarified that their goal in the long run is to keep inflation at around 2% p...
Changes in interest rates can have both positive and negative impacts on churches, because interest rates impact both interest on savings and the cost of debt. When interest rates rise or fall it directly affects interest income for churches with money held in savings, CDs, or money market funds. Retirees tend to hold much of their savings in safe ...
Individual income and sales taxes have a direct impact on the money available to people in your congregation. When taxes rise, people have less money for other things. When taxes fall, they have more. During 2018 pastors noticed some benefits from the 2018 tax reform as most employees had less money withheld from their paychecks for taxes. However,...
At the end of 2019, the external impact of the economy by any objective measure should be positive on most U.S. churches. Yet when Lifeway Research asked Protestant pastors, similar numbers think the economy is impacting their church positively (30%) as think the impact is negative (26%). A larger group (41%) thinks the economy is having no impact ...
Oct 22, 2024 · He shares nine questions to help your church assess whether your giving strategy meets the mark. An increasing number of church leaders report a slow decline in church giving—both in total dollars and in the number of people giving. Over time, this decline could have a devastating effect on a church’s capacity to fund ministry.
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A juridical entity erected in perpetuity by competent ecclesiastical authority. It consists of a sacred office and the right to receive the corresponding revenues.
