Today’s financial challenges should be a catalyst for change in the Catholic Church, writes JamesSomerville-Meikle
The Catholic Church should embrace the opportunity to do things differently.For some it was the sight of sports fans back in stadiums. For others it was the sound of live music or going on a foreign holiday. For me, the ultimate sign that the pandemic had come to an end was the return of the collection at Sunday Mass.
I remember a priest once joking during his homily on Holy Thursday that it was the one time of year the Church didn’t ask for money. That was before the pandemic. But the sight of those leather pouches and wicker baskets weaving through the pews is now returning in many churches.
