Contributing to the Church: A drop in the ocean

by Letters Editor · Published September 10, 2010 · Updated September 7, 2010

Stephanie Callea, Johannesburg
I am so shocked at the attitude of our fellow Catholics. They are always complaining about the financial and fund raising requests to help the Church.

One could find that these are the people who expect our priests to visit the sick and dying yet they will not help towards contributing towards�the financial side of petrol costs, and so on Do they expect our priests to walk from point A to point B?

Now, they complain about the building of Johannesburg�s new Chancery, asking �why must we give?�. Yet the basic contribution, a small amount of R25 is a drop in the ocean. We spend so much money on junk and R25 is a mere pittance.

If other Catholics would love to freely donate their�R1000, let them.

We expect priests to be there for us to visit the sick, bless our homes, yet we are so selfish that we don�t even want to contribute towards the Church. The Church still has to feed the poor, educate people and be maintained. And we are the Church.

Makes me wonder what kind of Catholics we are. We make false claims about the abuse of funds and gossip about�the cars priests use.

Please let those of us who want to donate and give to the Church be; if you don�t want to donate, that�s your problem.