The salary cut for cardinals and superiors ordered by the Pope will start on April 1. In the motu proprio, Bergoglio writes that starting from that date, the remuneration “paid by the Holy See to the Cardinals is reduced by 10 percent.” In addition, the reduction in wages regulated by law will be 8 percent for employees of the Holy See, the Governorate, and other related bodies classified in the C and C1 pay levels, that is, those of the heads and secretaries of the dicasteries.
A generalized 3% decrease for clerical or religious employees, from those classified in the C2 salary level up to the first level will face a decrease that will affect all non-lay personnel. The cuts do not apply in exceptional cases related to health costs.
The block of the biennial shots from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023, will concern all the personnel serving at the Holy See, the Governorate, and other related bodies, “but only for lay staff, the Vatican news specified, adding “this block will concern the employees from the fourth level up and, therefore, will not touch the lowest salaries.”
The provisions also apply to the Vicariate of Rome, the Vatican, Lateran and Liberian Papal Basilicas, the Fabbrica di San Pietro, and the Basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura.
The Vatican City will not fall into economic depression – Italy is experiencing it
The disclosure of Pope Bergoglio’s decision is an act of courage, perhaps a warning, to the country over which the small state, the State of the Church, is an international territorial entity that watches over a community equal to 1,328,993,000.
