The $900,000 embezzlement in Philadelphia.
Archbishop Chaput said that while most employees are honest, a few are not.
“Precisely because religious organizations run on the good will of the people they serve and the dedication of their staffs, they can easily become too trusting in their internal safeguards,” he said. “But that only makes the need for tight financial controls and accounting procedures more urgent.”
The archbishop wrote that new procedures are in place, along with more rigorous internal controls and tighter budget discipline, as well as a demand for improved skills in everyone tasked with the management of archdiocesan resources.
In 2007, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Accounting Practices Committee recommended several ways to enhance the financial governance in the thousands of parishes across the country, including diocesan-wide training of parish councils, completion of an annual internal-control questionnaire, as well as internal audits.
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