Priests Authority Within His Parish

[Chatter163]

That is excellent, more dioceses should be like yours. The problem is that a new bishop could take over and eliminate all of this progress you have made and you will have no recourse. In our diocese, our new bishop moved some $ 20 million into a “Foundation” which does not get audited. Rumor has it that …SNIP…but I don’t know if that is true or not.

The diocese annual financials do get audited but the auditors will not give a “clean sheet” because of the money flows back and forth among the diocese, the Foundation and a new “cemetery fund”. So we get only a qualified audit opinion.

My main point is the total lack of control on the part of the laity.

Let’s avoid the posting of rumors on this forum.

 

[nickajack]

The mansion is a rumor but the $ 20 million is not. That figure comes from the audit report of the diocese.

 

[Gorgias]

What is the appropriate course of action when a “parish administrator” (he is the only priest there but is canonically not the pastor) both abolishes the Finance Council and dismisses the business manager/bookkeeper hired by the prior pastor, taking total control himself?

Is it that he has ‘abolished’ the finance council, or rather, might it be that he is in the process of replacing its members?

Letting the business manager go is certainly within his rights, although taking on the responsibility himself while he finds a replacement might be a move whose prudence might be debated. Is he ‘taking total control himself’, or rather, might it be that he’s simply making a change in personnel?