Peterspence Collection

On 29 June, or the Sunday closest to it, a voluntary collection is taken called "Peterspence" (also written as "Peter's Pence"). Peterspence, along with investments, once constituted the Vatican's sole source of income aside from the gifts of benefactors and voluntary alms.   Originally, Peterspence was a medieval tax of one penny placed by English Kings on householders who had a certain amount of land. The practice spread throughout Christendom, but didn't survive the "Reformation." When Pope Pius IX, though, was driven from Rome and exiled after the Papal States were stolen by agents of the Masonic "Risorgimento," the practice was brought back, so that now Catholics voluntarily give in order to support the works of the Church. Because of the rather horrific state of the human element of the Church Militant and what her authorities often waste their money on these days, many traditional Catholics give their Peterspence money only to specifically traditionalist priestly fraternities and seminaries, traditionalist religious orders, traditionalist apostolates, etc.

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