WISCONSIN
Channel 3000
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. –
Can keeping the faith get a local church out of debt?
St. Mary’s Church, a Platteville parish, is facing a $100,000 shortfall and could soon have to close the doors to its school.
Unfortunately, church officials don’t have long to believe.
Some say the church’s money problems worsened when a new priest took over the parish.
Father Faustino Ruiz is part of a plan from the top of the Catholic Church to bring the faith back to its more traditional, conservative roots.
The change has caused conflict.
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