CHICAGO (IL)
KGMI
By Mary Wisniewski
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago announced on Wednesday that it had suffered setbacks during the economic downturn and would cut about 14 percent of jobs in its central offices, as well as close or consolidate 5 schools.
Chicago Cardinal Francis George wrote about the cuts in a column on the archdiocesan website — he has gone to Rome for the conclave to choose the next pope to replace Pope Benedict XVI, who gave his last general audience Wednesday.
The Chicago Archdiocese is the third-largest in the country, with 2.3 million members.
George said that administration operations have run operating deficits of more than $30 million in each of the past four years and the trend is “unsustainable.”
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