BALTIMORE (CNS) -- The coronavirus pandemic, combined with inflation and a reorganization of the U.S. bishops' communication arm, have altered the budget picture for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in the 2020s.
'The year-over-year challenges, beginning in the spring of 2020 with the pandemic, continue,' wrote Bishop Gregory L. Parkes of St. Petersburg, Florida, USCCB treasurer and chairman of its Committee on Budget and Finance, in an introductory message to his fellow bishops prior to