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RE: St. Proculus church and museum
Nice piece of history to learn about, pretty surroundings up in the mountains.
Definitely not right that one should pay a church to enter, I know it is done in many places of late, I still feel everything in church properties belong to the people, after all it was the people who funded this right from the start.
I agree with you that it's not right to pay for a church visit but this one is held more as a museum. There are no services done and inside is a guide who is there to tell you something about the history. BUT there are churches that are still used and you have to pay to enter and this is truly not right. But in some places the money is used purely for the reconstruction which I don't mind. But I don't like if someone is getting richer from such entrance fees :)
Thank you for stopping by Joan!
Museums no one minds paying for, keeping history is important.
Guided tours are well worth while, another reason one does not mind paying where services are rendered.
Working churches should never charge, most are wealthy, perhaps I am a bit one sided but when the Notre Dame burned, people were enthusiastically offering great sums of money to rebuild (which they have started), while Mozambique had been hit by two horrendous storms, people are still seeking assistance to this day.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/lead-leak-from-notre-dame-cathedral-fire-prompts-lawsuit
https://reliefweb.int/report/mozambique/mozambique-cyclone-idai-and-cyclone-kenneth-response-situation-report-10-1-18-july