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Clerical financial misconduct

Does the Church need a ‘Dallas Charter’ on money?

Financial misconduct was always going to be the 'next big scandal' - but can there be a common and coherent response?

JD Flynn
Mar 14, 2025
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Since the Church’s sexual abuse scandal emerged in 2002, observers and commentators have made it a cliche to say that the next Catholic scandal in the Church will be financial, and that the scope of financial misconduct in the Church will be found eventually widespread and mostly unaddressed.

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