BECOMING A CORPORATION SOLE...........

Until now, the financial structure of the Catholic Church has traditionally been structured so that the Roman Catholic Bishop of a Diocese, is the Corporation Sole, of all Church properties and other temporalities in The United States.  Several dioceses in New England states have been financially administered differently for quite some time, by incorporating parishes individually and making the Pastors, the Corporation Sole, instead of the Diocesan Bishop.  Dioceses around the country are increasingly incorporating at the individual parishes level.  The Sacramento Diocese is now in the process of doing so,  So this morning, the Parish Bookkeeper and I went to the Bankm to make the necessary changes in our parish financial structure, making me as Pastor, the Corporation Sole of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Del Paso Heights / Rio Linda / Elverta / Robla / Sacramento.  A whole new responsibility for me and my diocesan priestly colleagues as Pastors, in the administration, oversight, and responsibility, for the management and safeguarding of parish / diocesan temoralities...........All For The Greater Glory of God and the Common Good of the Community of Believers - The Church,   Fr.  Troy