Pope Francis has ordered pay cuts for cardinals and other clerics, including priests and nuns, who work at the Holy See.In a decree being published on Wednesday by the Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Francis said that starting in April cardinals’ salaries will be reduced 10 per cent.
Superiors of the Holy See’s various departments will be hit by 8 per cent cuts while lower-ranking priests and nuns will see 3 per cent vanish from their paycheques.In the decree he signed on Tuesday, the pope noted that the Holy See’s finances have been marked by several years of deficit.