Declines in Donations Outweigh Direct Costs of Catholic Priest Scandals

Andrew O’Connell, “The Daily Stat,” HBR Blog Network, July 11, 2014

Priest sexual-abuse scandals have cost the U.S. Catholic church a total of about $3 billion in legal fees, settlements, and other direct costs since the 1980s, but the impact of parishioners’ declining charitable contributions has been an order of magnitude larger. […read more]