US Army’s cancelation of chapel contracts ‘harms Catholics’ in military, archbishop warns

The Archbishop for the Military Services in the US says that by canceling these contracts the military 'over-burdens Catholic chaplains' and disproportionately harms Catholics because chaplains are already so low in number yet in such high demand

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The Archbishop for the Military Services has criticised the US Army's decision to cancel a swathe of chapel contracts, warning that this “disproportionately harms Catholics” serving in the military.

In a pastoral letter that was also sent to all members of Congress, Archbishop Timothy Broglio addressed the decision of US Army Installation Management Command to cancel all chapel contracts for Coordinators of Religious Education (CRE), for Catholic Pastoral Life Coordinators (CPLC) and for musician contracts in the army, reports the US-based Catholic News Agency (CNA).

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