My questions elicit a warm laugh. I doubt anyone's ever asked before. My life gets so programmed, it's all set. I don't have a chance to spend money. Nonetheless, I'm concerned about money.
Money is a means to carry out the church's mission.
I turn back to the subject of personal investments, and get a short lecture. I belong to a religious order that takes a vow of poverty, so any money I earned from the time I was 20 until the time I became a bishop 10 years ago, went to my order. I never worried about personal investments. As a superior, I worried about community investments, but I never had any personal money. Then he surprises me.