the "no sex" part already filters such people out of the Catholic priesthood. The vocation is another "world" for precisely this reason
The Catholic Church does give those who take a vow of poverty food and shelter. There’s no mechanism for that in Western Buddhism.
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what do Eastern Buddhists do? Why don't Westerners copy them?
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Asian Buddhists have institutions that provide support for monks and nuns. Westerner Buddhists don’t respect monasticism.
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