Funding

The State’s contribution to the economic support of the Catholic Church has different explanations according to the history and culture of each country and each case has a different scope. In Germany, church-state relationship is greater by the predominance of the Christian Democratic Union for many years. For Catholics who declare them as such tax levied in the form of donations (the Evangelical Church as well.) To avoid this, many Germans have expressly left the Church, because those who profess no religion does not contribute.In Argentina, the bishops ordained before 1994 have received a salary and then retirement, assigned and paid directly by the Argentine government, equivalent to a trial judge (about 1300 euros per month). Citation needed In Chile, besides alms and collections in every local or national church, the faithful and anyone in general are able to voluntarily donate to the Catholic Church 1 of your monthly income by joining the parish concerned. In Spain, the State contributions to the Catholic Church, established by law, are intended for purposes such as preservation of historical and artistic heritage, a concerted education and social projects promoted by the Catholic Church, and their costs purely religious. In addition to direct donations of the faithful, the contribution to the Catholic Church is done through a voluntary placement on the tax return of 0.7 .This represents a turnover of 170 million euros annually. This allocation is not strictly an additional tax because the believer is not supposed to pay more taxes but only the right to decide whether the money should go to church or social purposes. Finally, the financing of the Church is completed by a direct state contribution reports that approximately 25 of their income. In Mexico, the Catholic Church is totally separate from the state and receives no input whatsoever on the part of it. Previously, the church received substantial income during the colonial era, due to their large estates and the money they gave the faithful tithe was paid compulsorily, in addition to making loans and charging interest. This continued after independence until the late nineteenth century President Benito Juarez declared the Reform Laws.With this, the government paid off the church property and legally separated the Catholic Church of the State, introduced a civil registry and liturgies and sacraments of the church came to have no legal value. Today the church holds only with the voluntary alms of the faithful. Buildings and places like temples, churches, cathedrals, monasteries, convents and basilicas, notably the expropriated by Benito Ju rez and Calles are the patrimony of the nation and are charged on a loan to religious associations. Most of these buildings date from the colonial era and are of great historical and artistic value. Because they are owned by the state, the church does not have permission to make changes to these buildings, and any change is subject to consideration by the National Institute of Anthropology and History. For its part, the bishops have no retirement by the State and the priests, although they are recognized as Mexican citizens, they have no say in the decisions of the state.