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Cracking Down on Catholic Charities

F.R. March 8, 2009 September 6, 2010 UncategorizedLeave a comment

Last October, Bishop Robert Hermann, acting leader of the St. Louis Archdiocese, sent Catholic Charities board members a memo saying the organization had been allowed “to drift in a direction that began to work contrary to the desires” of previous archbishops. He informed them that the relationship between the archdiocese …