GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio , heugenio@guampdn.com March 13, 2017
The Archdiocese of Agana, which last year spent about $213,000 more than it collected, is trying to restore public confidence in its leadership as it asks residents to donate to the archdiocese and its programs during the current Lenten season.
The archdiocese has embraced financial transparency and accountability to help rebuild that trust, Coadjutor Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes and other officials said as the church deals with a deficit and at least $125 million in clergy sex abuse lawsuits.
Byrnes said there has been great skepticism, distrust, questioning and lack of confidence by many Guam Catholics toward the leadership of the archdiocese, the curia and the chancery.
“With earnest hearts, greater transparency and accountability, we pledge to restore that trust,” Byrnes wrote in a March 5 pastoral letter appealing for financial pledges to help the archdiocese fund its ministries and services.
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