Killala priest Fr Brendan Hoban said church income was “in free-fall, and will be (it appears) for some time” . There was “ a strange belief hanging around for years that the Catholic Church has plenty of money”. “This is a persistent fallacy, beloved of critics of the Church, even though it’s glaringly obvious that without church collections there’s no other form of income available. The Catholic Church is as rich as its adherents are generous – no more and no less,” he said. The result is that the income of the Catholic Church is now in free-fall, and will be (it appears) for some time,” he said.

Source: The Irish Times September 06, 2020 15:00 UTC