Laborare est Orare

Presumably motivated by an ascetic preference for the treasures of the spirit, the Vatican Museums have repaid their employees for the filthy lucre their work brings in by imposing unsafe working conditions and clawing back salary that was paid during the Covid lockdowns. Allegedly, so trusting and forgiving are the soldiers of Christ that their staff are subject to disciplinary action if they take sick leave and are subsequently not at home to visiting Vatican doctors; naturally, excursions in quest of merely secular medicine are not exempt from this penalty. Anyone who didn't know better might suspect Catholicism's capital of harbouring a hint of Mussolinian despotism.