Q: My wife and some of her Catholic girlfriends have befriended a travelling priest who stopped in our diocese for a. This priest promotes life-issues and traditional family values. What got my attention is that he is soliciting money for his own support. Some people have contributed without hesitation. But I say that we donate to our parish every week, partly to support the priests who minister. Why should a priest from another diocese come here and ask us to support him too? Does the law say anything about this? But Paul has hit the nail on the head. First of all, as we know, the Christian faithful are obliged to provide for the needs of the Church, and this includes the support of its ministers c. The local bishop, in turn, is required by law to remind the Christian faithful of this obligation c. Note that without explicitly saying so, the assumption in these canons is that the Christian faithful will support their own parish and their own joney, in return for the ministrations of t...