I really do appreciate your concern about us. The Archdiocese has had to lay off several hundred employees recently, and I happen to know they are utterly incapable of coping with the damage sufered at the low-income housing complexes they own and operate. I am not in love with Archdiocesan bureaucracies, but everybody understands these layoffs are a reflection of radically reduced collections, which means the parishes are going to be strapped as well.
From the troubled diocese of Arlington, Virginia