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A Pillar special report

The pandemic and the collection plate

A Pillar special report

Brendan Hodge
Mar 22, 2021
∙ Paid

The near-universal closure of Catholic parishes that began in late March 2020 was an unprecedented event in American Catholic history: one with spiritual, pastoral, and operational consequences for the nearly 17,000 Catholic parishes in the U.S. 

A special report from The Pillar looks at financial consequences of the pandemic for parishes across the coun…

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