{"id":27209,"date":"2025-05-09T15:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27209"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:16:52","slug":"why-newly-elected-pope-leo-xiv-wont-receive-a-salary-as-vatican-rules-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27209","title":{"rendered":"Why newly elected Pope Leo XIV won’t receive a salary as Vatican rules explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pope Leo XIV, the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, will not receive a salary – well, not in the traditional sense anyway.<\/p>\n

After 133 cardinals met up in the secret conclave meeting, which lasted 24 hours, Cardinal Robert Prevost was\u00a0elected as the head<\/a>\u00a0of the world\u2019s 1.4 billion-member church on Thursday (8 May).<\/p>\n

The Chicago-born pontiff, who spent his career ministering in Peru, became the first North American pope in the church\u2019s 2,000-year\u00a0history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 69-year-old is seven years younger than Pope Francis was when he was elected in 2013.<\/p>\n

And in his first words as pope in Italian and Spanish, he told the Vatican City crowd: \u201cPeace be with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

But having become one of the most powerful men in the world overnight, it seems the new pope\u00a0won’t be paid<\/a>\u00a0a traditional salary.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Vatican will provide all financial needs, from housing, food and transportation to other expenses in the form of stipends,\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0Fox News.<\/p>\n

The Vatican, referred to as its own little country, happens to be ‘an economy that relies on a combination of donations, private enterprises, and investments to generate revenue,’ Investopedia\u00a0claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It comes after Pope Francis, who passed away on Easter Monday, was\u00a0worth just $100<\/a>\u00a0at the time of his death.<\/p>\n

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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV becomes the first-ever American pontiff (Antonio Masiello\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Reports suggested that the pope rejected a proposed papal salary and donated much of his earnings put up by the Vatican.<\/p>\n

Well, on Friday morning (9 May) Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass with his fellow cardinals in the Sistine Chapel.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the cardinals, Pope Leo said: “God has called me by your election to succeed the prince of the apostles, and has entrusted this treasure to me.<\/p>\n

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The 69-year-old is seven years younger than Pope Francis was when he was elected in 2013 (TIZIANA FABI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“For we are the people whom God has chosen as his own, so that we may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called us out of darkness into his marvellous light.”<\/p>\n

The pope went on to say that a ‘lack of faith is often tragically accompanied by the loss of meaning in life’ and ‘violations of human dignity’.<\/p>\n

He added: “Today, too, there are many settings in which Jesus, although appreciated as a man, is reduced to a kind of charismatic leader or superman.<\/p>\n

“This is true not only among non-believers but also among many baptised Christians, who thus end up living, at this level, in a state of practical atheism.<\/p>\n

“This is the world that has been entrusted to us, a world in which, as Pope Francis taught us so many times, we are called to bear witness to our joyful faith in Jesus the Saviour.<\/p>\n

“Therefore, it is essential that we too repeat, with Peter: ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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