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Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 22:07:51 PM EDT
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| A week back the Sun Journal had this report that the Catholic Diocese political donation not from the collection plate. As others have noted, the Diocese has closed to parishes in Lewiston, and also laid off seven teachers at Trinity Catholic School, due to lack of funds.
But from the Sun Journal article we learn:
But Marc Mutty, a leader of the group seeking to repeal the law who is on leave from his work at the diocese, said parishioners should know the donated funds were not taken from the collection plate.
"The money is dedicated revenues that were provided by a donor for causes such as these and money from the collection basket or any of those types of things would never be used," he said.
Mutty said he only had limited details regarding the origins of the donation.
"It's my understanding the money was left to the Portland diocese for defending church dogma or policy, that sort of thing. It wasn't specific to this particular issue. Our application to this issue was our choice, but it fell within the general parameters of the donor's request," he said.
What I find intriguing is that the Church would rather fight something that has no direct impact on its parishioners instead of using the money to teach the dogma they are trying to "defend." |
| Gerald Weinand :: Maine Diocese closes churches, layoff teachers, to "defend dogma" |
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