Good point.
Our Diocese is currently engaged in a massive fundraising campaign. They seem almost deliberately vague and obtuse on what they plan to do with the money. They have said that it will be in a separate “lockbox”, under the control of it’s own Board of Directors.
That got my antenna up and I started thinking “slush fund”.
For a rainy day when some jury awards a priestly pedophile victim 90% of their assets.
Catholics, who are spiritual brothers and sisters of the poor diocese will rush their donations in to help offset the needs of the diocese, won’t they? They will won’t they?
A few pennies per adult Catholic in the U.S. would do it but I expect the Gallup diocese better not hold it’s collective breath.