Despite money worries, Pope gives homeless people free injection | Abroad

According to the Vatican, these people are most at risk of becoming infected and should be helped. The inoculations will take place in Aula Paolo VI, the place where the Pope usually holds his audiences.

Previously, the Pope himself was also vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine. He is a strong supporter of vaccinations. The Pope once said that Vatican employees must be vaccinated or they risk being fired.

Vatican must cut corners

While the Pope is helping the poor with the vaccinations, he also announced this week that the salaries of clergy working in the Vatican should be cut. Cardinals must hand in ten percent of their salary, heads and secretaries of Curia subdivisions eight percent, and clergy members lower in the ecclesiastical hierarchy three percent.

The reason is that the Vatican has much less income due to the corona virus. For example, there were not the usual many millions of euros that the Vatican receives thanks to access to the Vatican Museums, with the Sistine Chapel normally visited by around six million people every year.

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