Cardinal Rigali Must Go | National Catholic Reporter

Cardinal Rigali Must Go | National Catholic Reporter by Michael Sean Winters

The solution is easy. Each parish council needs to establish itself as a legal non-profit corporation and set up a new checking account controlled by it and not the pastor and insruct the parishoners to give to it and not the parish. That account would then pay for everything but would not send any money to the Cardinal until 1. he transfers all parish property to the corporation, 2. establishes all diocesan entities as non-profits with independent boards 3. let the council hire the priest and 4. resigns when this is done. Peter's pence should be withheld until the same bodies, in unison, elect the new archbishop and the Vatican recognizes this as legitimate.

The faithful realize that until they set up alternate payment arrangements, things like this will continue.