[Goanet]Authors, editors, manuscripts, and fees

[Gabe Menezes]

From: "Victor Rangel-Ribeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <goanet@goanet.org>
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Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 8:47 AM
Subject: [Goanet]Authors, editors, manuscripts, and fees
 Why shouldn't editors charge for their painstaking work? We pay carpenters
for repairing our doors, electricians for replacing the wiring in our homes,
priests for saying a mass or blessing a house, doctors for feeling our pulse
and prescribing an aspirin, lawyers for preparing a letter, teachers for
tutoring our children; but some of us expect writers to give us their books 
as
gifts, and editors to edit our work for nothing. It does not make sense.

    Regards,
    Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
RESPONSE: Do we really pay a priest for saying Mass or offering a blessing? 
If so then Luther was correct regarding indulgences and the like. I was 
under the assumption that we paid for expenses incurred and not actually for 
services rendered?

I would appreciate a Priest's or knowledgeable laity's opinion on this 
matter. Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Gabe Menezes.