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Ah, now I get it. You think they paid him.
They didn't. They paid the church. Big difference. He doesn't keep that money. It goes to the parish, and part of that to the diocese. The priest isn't the one making bank, it's the church.
Also, it's pretty unusual for a Catholic babtism to take 5 minutes and to take place after Mass. Both of my kids were babtised at the local parish, and the ceremony was an hour after Mass ended but included a separate Mass so that the parents didn't have to go twice. But maybe that's just my wife's church.
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