{"id":5035,"date":"2005-07-21T23:59:29","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T23:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/more-please-1.html"},"modified":"2005-07-21T23:59:29","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T23:59:29","slug":"more-please-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/more-please-1.html","title":{"rendered":"More, please"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas diocese is broke, needs more money from parishes<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Catholic Diocese of Dallas is asking its parishes to take a little extra out of their collection plates to help pay diocesan legal costs. <\/p>\n

In a letter sent to pastors this week, Bishop Charles Grahmann said two legal fights were likely to cost the cash-strapped diocese more than the $1 million budgeted for litigation in 2006. <\/p>\n

Those two cases are the battle against the Dallas school system’s attempt to condemn land next to a Catholic cemetery and the lawsuit over two child molesters who worked at St. Pius X Catholic Church’s child-care center in Far East Dallas in the 1990s. <\/p>\n

"Those costs have exhausted our reserves," the bishop wrote of those two lawsuits. <\/p>\n

Every parish sends a portion of its collections, called the assessment, to the diocesan offices every quarter. Those assessments range from 5 percent to 12.6 percent, depending on the wealth of the parish. <\/p>\n

Starting in September, a special, temporary increase of 0.5 percent to 1.3 percent will be tacked on. <\/p>\n

The last time the diocese added a special assessment was to help cover the settlement costs of the infamous Rudy Kos molestation case. After being declared "grossly negligent" by a Dallas jury in 1997, the diocese paid more than $31 million to 10 men who were abused by Mr. Kos as boys. He has been defrocked and sent to prison. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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