Yes, the Catholic church does want your money

Not too long ago I heard that some politician got in trouble for not firing someone who had blogged something offensive along the lines of "the Catholic church disagrees with birth control because they want to have more tithing Catholics" while this is incorrect, there is some truth in it. The Church does in fact want more tithing Catholics.

For some reason people find this idea repulsive, I don't see why that should be so. A well funded church can provide so much for a community of believers, there are many ways that the church can use people's money to serve them. Actually I think that if enough people did so investing money (among other things) in your parish, can have much better returns than many investments that we do make.

God bless,
Jordan