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- From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.catholic
- Subject: Re: contributions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.194913.14108@compu.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:49:13 GMT
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- djm@TRENT.ATT.COM (Donald J. Magee) writes:
-
- >When you say people do you mean only adults, or adults and children?
- >Did the survey take into account private donations (not at Mass) or
- >special drives? Just curious.
-
- There was an immediate challenge to the figures by the finance person of the
- diocese of seattle to the numbers. They mentioned that special donations were
- not in the stats.
-
- That is correct. We are speaking here of ordinary collections via the weekly
- envelope contribution system in use by the typical Catholic parish. The stats
- would become meaningless if a special bequest that donated a deceased person's
- estate to the parish. In most dioceses this money goes straight into diocesan
- coffers anyway.
-
- As far as my numbers go, we are talking the typical family donation. A small
- number of families request two envelopes, one for husband and one for the
- wife. There might be 10 or 20 such families in a typical parish.
-
- Protestants typically have more of a member type donation system. Catholics
- are still rooted around the family as the central unit of giving. Some
- parishes who have there own envelope generation system (they print their own
- via computer) have complete control over who gets what when but that is not
- the rule of the game. Normally there are those who are on the active list and
- those who are not. The NOTs might get a special holy day mailing but nothing
- else.
-
- Fred
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