If we are talking the Catholic Church, and apart of the grave suspicions (or certainty) that the world wide phenomenon called so no longer corresponds to it, as Pope Michael claims, and as would be apparent even apart from him on issues of last three "Popes" directly supporting Evolution Theory, if we projected the economic facts onto what would be if there had been nothing even remotely resembling a very recent great apostasy, it should be doing so.
Worldwide, the number of priests in 1970 was 419,728. In 2017, there were a total of 414,582 priests. While the total number of priests worldwide has therefore remained about the same since 1970, the Catholic population has nearly doubled, growing from 653.6 million in 1970 to 1.229 billion in 2012.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_shortage_in_the_Catholic_Church
Let's say, the Catholic Church made 5 billion dollars a year. Just to take an example.
5,000,000,000 : 414,582 = 12,060 dollars and 34 cents a year. 1005 dollars and 3 cents a month. 844 € and 22 euro cents a month. This is not much more than half of what a cashier in Lidl gets, and she usually has to work only 35 hours a week, while the priest is to be disposable at 24/24. Set prayers and services, set hours for other sacraments, set hours for catechesis or marriage preparation, but apart from those set hours also rushing to dying people with the Blessed Sacrament around the clock.
No, you cannot accuse the men of the Church to be filthy rich. In France a priest touches 950 € in liquids, but is also lodged without charge./HGL
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