Small Catholic parishes fighting for their lives
Kansas, Ohio
"When parishioners send registered letters to the bishop, and the man can't answer them himself ... there are so many things that are not factual that we were told by the bishop's right-hand people,' Logsdon said.
George Van Doren of Oregon criticized the 'consultation' process the diocese used to formulate the proposals for reorganization. Parishes were required to fill out surveys, have meetings and come up with viable options to the plan. During parish visits, Blair, Sister Joyce Lehman and Joe Wasserman set many restrictions about who could attend and what questions would be addressed.
'When someone has a meeting with me and dictates what we will discuss, what questions will be proper, what questions can we expect answers to, that's not consultation. That's dictation.
At Holy Rosary, no one came around before the original list of recommendations came out ... they never asked us to review the statistical information they had gathered so that we could tell them 'this is an error here.' ... "
"When parishioners send registered letters to the bishop, and the man can't answer them himself ... there are so many things that are not factual that we were told by the bishop's right-hand people,' Logsdon said.
George Van Doren of Oregon criticized the 'consultation' process the diocese used to formulate the proposals for reorganization. Parishes were required to fill out surveys, have meetings and come up with viable options to the plan. During parish visits, Blair, Sister Joyce Lehman and Joe Wasserman set many restrictions about who could attend and what questions would be addressed.
'When someone has a meeting with me and dictates what we will discuss, what questions will be proper, what questions can we expect answers to, that's not consultation. That's dictation.
At Holy Rosary, no one came around before the original list of recommendations came out ... they never asked us to review the statistical information they had gathered so that we could tell them 'this is an error here.' ... "
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