Finance councils are a waste of time unless the Canon is updated to require two signatures on every check above a certain amount (say $10,000), and one of those signatures have to be from a lay member of the council.
This priest has virtually drained the coffers of a parish for his own benefit (a wine rack?). These "floaters" (guys ordained for one diocese but who move around from place to place) should raise red flags with bishops, but, for some reason, they don't.
That might be a good idea too.
There is absolutely no need to have any of these financial scandals; proper procedures could prevent almost all of them.
From reading this thread up to post 243 it sounds like this was a boil needing to be lanced. So far it doesn't sound like financial abuse by the priest as much as a parish out of control.
So far there is too much hostility to figure out the facts. The picture of the church on the Omaha Archdiocese is nice though. I wonder if anyone has pictures of the inside and the improvements.