When the Church leaders decided to ape the hippies they set us on this path.
Amazingly they do now actually realize that basic religious education should be a priority; it only took the rise of three generations of religious illiteracy to finally admit this!
**Since drawing down reserves is a self-limiting practice, and the bishops, financially hard-pressed back home, aren't about to raise the ante in Washington, that means cutbacks ahead. Further guaranteeing that is a proposed 16 percent reduction in the diocesan assessments. Current figures for some of the USCCB's higher-visibility offices include Social Development and World Peace, $2,759,081; Pro-Life, $2,336,283; General Counsel, $1,909,800; and Government Liaison, $993,895. The Child Youth and Protection Office and the National Review Board established to monitor implementation of the bishops' policy on sex abuse operate on $759,021; the bishops' Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People gets another $67,528.**
What do you think of the supposed downsizing? Guess I'll have to see it for an entire year before I really believe.