[G Larry]

As the collection plate dries up, it will be instructive to watch how each Parish and Diocese prioritize their budgets.

It may help to do as parishioners in Buffalo, NY have done, and start dropping notes in the collection plate, to the effect,

"Contributions will resume when Rome has cleaned up its mess."

Imagine if every parish received only a half-dozen of these notes every Sunday?!?!?

[Buckeye McFrog]

As the collection plate dries up, it will be instructive to watch how each Parish and Diocese prioritize their budgets.

Most of it will go to bulk mailers and telemarketers to pester the bejeebers out of us to give them money, I reckon.

[DuncanWaring]

In my diocese, and one adjacent, the bishop levies a “tax” on the individual parishes, with the warning “Raise it by special collections if you want, but if you can’t it comes out of your general budget”.

I suspect he is an “Authorized User” on the parish checking accounts, so he can write himself a check whenever he wishes; shorting the collection plate hurts only the local parish.

Also in the case of each diocese, when the rampant homosexuality of the bishops/archbishops/cardinals became very public in June, the local bishops wrote namby-pamby “Letters to the Faithful” encouraging them to contact the diocese “Victim Advocate” if they had any concerns.

Homosexualists all.