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Best-Practicing Catholics

Can the ‘Roundtable' Fix Church Management?

Peter McDonough

A purchasing agent for the Archdiocese of New York is convicted in a $2-million kickback scheme. A priest supports his opulent lifestyle by pilfering $1.3 million. Another squirrels away over $1 million from weekly collections to buy a horse farm. The Center for the Study of Church Management at Villanova University estimates that more than half of the dioceses in the United St (...)


 

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Peter McDonough is the coauthor (with Eugene Bianchi) of Passionate Uncertainty: Inside the American Jesuits (University of California Press).

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