Folia Canonica 12. (2009)
STUDIES - Péter Artner: The remuneration of diocesan clerics
16 PÉTER ARTNER 6.4. Accommodation Among the strictly interpreted financial remuneration a priest also needs a home, which provides him the necessary things for living. It is obligatory, that the place, where the priest fives, be suitable for human demands. The home (room(s) or house) has to be large enough, for the priest to have room in it comfortably for his furniture, books and other things, and water, electricity and heating should also be available. As in the case of some ecclesiastical ministries clerics are bound by the obligation of residence, this accommodation possibility has to be close to their place of service. 6.5. Payment of Those Whose Services He Needs In fulfilling his daily job, the priest may need someone to help him. This help can be divided into two parts. The priest may need somebody who works for the parish, to help the priest and the community mostly in pastoral work, but can be another worker, who is independent of the ecclesiastical ministry, in the strict sense of the word. (e.g. housekeeper, mechanic etc.). In normal circumstances a man fives in a family. His family helps him in the everyday requirements. For example he has somebody who cooks and washes for him, who takes care of him, when he is ill. A priest usually fives alone, but he needs these services, too, so he has to have somebody to help him in his personal needs. Usually there are housekeepers, who can fulfill this work, but they also have to get also remuneration. 6.6. Social Assistance A cleric, who is not able to exercise his ministry because of health reasons, does not lose the right to support.51 If a cleric during the time of his active ministry is assured of receiving a sufficient pension when he is going to retire, he need not receive a salary large enough to enable him to make provision for the future.52 A cleric can retire not only because of his age, but because of health conditions. In such situations he may be reduced to the support that fits his necessities. Not only the diocesan bishop personally, but the Conference of Bishops has the responsibility for establishing a social security fund for the support of these clerics.53 If a cleric becomes ill temporarily but does not retires just needs medical help e.g. in a hospital, he is to be given enough support to keep up himself. In s' Woestman 191. “Hannah, The Canonical, 110. 53 Morrisey 34.
