{"id":45142,"date":"2021-06-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/06\/29\/peters-pence-a-chance-to-contribute-to-the-popes-charities\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T06:00:00","slug":"peters-pence-a-chance-to-contribute-to-the-popes-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/06\/29\/peters-pence-a-chance-to-contribute-to-the-popes-charities\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter's Pence, a chance to contribute to the Pope's charities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the pandemic, the Pope sent medical equipment, including respirators, to high-risk areas, from Latin America to China. But where does the Pope get the money for these acts of charity?<\/p>\n<p>He does so through Peter's Pence, donations from Catholics collected every June 29, the feast day of Sts. Peter and Paul, and considered \u201cthe Pope's day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those funds go toward meeting the Pope and the Vatican's needs.<\/p>\n<p>Pius IX launched the initiative in 1871. Though it was really born in the seventh century, with the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, who, as a sign of loyalty to Rome, would send an annual contribution to the Pope. Back then it was called the \u201cDenarius Sancti Petri.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest report, from 2019, shows that Peter's Pence raised $64 million and financed charity projects and a third of the Pope and the Vatican Curia's activities.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020 Peter's Pence collected about $14 million less, but expenses remained high.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the fund had about $380 million; today it has about $245 million.<\/p>\n<p>That's why Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves, who manages the Vatican's finances, says the numbers show that the Church's aid projects depend upon Catholics' contributions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>DDV<\/p>\n<p>TR: CT<\/p>\n<p>RR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 29, 2021. June 29 is when Catholics around the world are invited to contribute directly to the Pope's charitable works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-htGSOaZAZk","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bobolosanpedroeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bobolosanpedroint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}