By Susan Campbell
Hartford Courant
July 8, 2010
http://blogs.courant.com/susan_campbell/2010/07/the-catholic-church-and-its-sc.html
As says Stan, who sent this link:
Your tithed dollars at work.
The Rev. Kevin Gray, a Waterbury priest, is accused of bilking his Roman Catholic Church of $1.3 million so that he could live the life of the large. Oh, and he needed to pay for male escorts, too, say police.
Police said Gray did so in part because of job dissatisfaction. Hey! I'm dissatisfied, too!
Meanwhile, remember this? In 2009, in reaction to a different Catholic church scandal, Connecticut Rep. Mike Lawlor (D-East Haven) and Connecticut Sen. Andrew McDonald (D-Stamford), co-chairs of the legislative judicial committee, introduced a bill that called for more input from lay people in the financial dealings of the church.
And for that, the legislators got their heads handed to them by some within the church.
Think their bill sounds better now? Or is there a better way to administer oversight of parish finances?
And thanks, Lawrence, for the inspiration.
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