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All priests are required to have a master's degree. Either eight years of seminary to earn it, or four years if you already have a bachelor's degree before hand

Interesting

Priests who belong to a religious order such as Jesuits do not get paid. Some work as professors in universities or even military chaplains, but are required by the church to give all of their salary

Oof

How do they live

And while the church itself isn't taxed...priests are. They pay income tax

Religious orders provide everything they need for their job and a place to live. If they're military, obviously the military gives them a place to live, they're officers

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If they're diocesan (paid, normal) priests then they often live in a small house or apartment at the church

Who are dioceses?

Mine has been begging me for two years to buy his motorcycle

A diocese is like a state

Parish = county, diocese = state

In Louisiana, owing to their French heritage, they actually call counties parishes there

Really?

So each parish has a church, and one or more priests working there. Several of them in a region are grouped together into a diocese, headquartered at a cathedral and run by a bishop

Archdiocese/archbishop just means there's a high population

I see

The more you know

And then all bishops fall under the Pope, who is not paid regardless of belonging to a religious order or not

Pope Francis is a Jesuit so he never got paid

And obviously, Latin-rite priests can't marry, but Eastern Catholics can

You don't see a lot of those in the west, they're still Catholic and follow the exact same theology but have some different traditions

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Is this good?

book I mean

I am interested to read something unbiased about the conflict

but everyone either supports one side or hates both

You'll never find an unbiased anything

It's easier to just do your own research and form your own conclusions

Here is what I can offer. The Nation of Palestine never existed. Before Israel 1948, the land belonged to Britain, conquered in WW1, from the former Ottoman Empire.

You have to decide for yourself what makes a nation legitimate, and can it lose legitimacy? If conquest makes a nation legitimate, then Britain was the rightful ruler and would have authority to give it to whoever they wanted

That would also make the Ottomans the rightful rulers until they were defeated of course

If crimes against humanity forfeits legitimacy, then they would be illegitimate because of genocides against Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians.

you can look at the history of Israel in relation to the Middle East and draw your own conclusion

Prior to the Muslim conquest, it was a country called the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Prior to the Muslim conquest, it was a country called the Kingdom of Jerusalem

before that it was under Roman rule as Judaea, then Rome merged Judaea and Syria to create Syria Palaestina

where the term "Palestine" originates

before that i am not too knowledgeable on, something about the Maccabees and Greeks