GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, heugenio@guampdn.com July 23, 2017
To help Guam’s Catholic Church correct past financial mismanagement, pay debts and properly fund chancery operations, village parishes will see an average of 186-percent increases in assessment fees.
This means up to a 1,146-percent hike for the Maina parish, for example, which used to pay only $107.82, church data shows.
The Dededo parish, the biggest, will be assessed $10,763.45 instead of the $5,481.26 imposed six years ago, or an increase of 96 percent.
The parish was only making $4,603.95 in actual payments, archdiocese data shows.
The proposed assessment for each of the Catholic Church’s 25 parishes, excluding the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral Basilica in Hagåtña, was published in the July 16 issue of the archdiocese’s weekly newspaper, Umatuna Si Yu’os.
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