Editor’s Note: Catholics should remember, that when they see Catholic laymen on social media raising money in exchange for teaching about Catholic topics, that that modus operandi began in the protestant revolt, and has lately been perfected in the United States of America phenomenon of mega churches. So it will be useful to learn what these “churches” are and are about, so as to understand where the trajectory of replacing clergy with laymen, as persons such the Neo-Sedevacantists urge implicitly nearly on a daily basis.
In the teaching of Christ, alms is to be given to the poor, not to the Church. The Apostles begged with Christ, precisely because they embraced poverty as a vocation, as religious, such as nuns, monks and friars, do today; not because they wanted to accumulate wealth or temporal power.
Thus, donating to a layman is not tithing, since they do not represent God. And donating even to a monastery is not tithing, but it may be alms-giving if the monastery is poor. Tithing properly exists when you financially support the Church Christ founded, in Her necessities, not enriching priests, not churches founded by men.
I will tell you this, because as the speaker in this video above says, using religious claims to become rich or beg when you are a layman with a job, salary, pension, 5 bedroom mansion, is not only obscenely dishonest avarice, it is sacrilegious fraud.
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