StP-M Archdiocese May Cut Staff Due to $4,000,000 Budget Shortage

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Some archdiocesan employees may lose their jobs as chancery officials devise ways to reduce expenses by $4 million per year, according to Father Kevin McDonough, archdiocesan vicar general and moderator of the curia.

Although the archdiocese is in good financial shape now, as reported in The Catholic Spirit in February, future budget projections call for restructuring and reducing personnel, said John Bierbaum, archdiocesan central services division director.

“We’ve got a couple of trends that don’t look good, and rather than wait for them to manifest themselves, we think we ought to act now,” he said. [snip] Read More

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BUDGET CUTS

Here are some of the financial steps the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is taking:

• Significant cuts to non-personnel expenses

• Frozen salaries for management employees.

• Plans to reduce some administrative staff. The number of positions to be eliminated has not yet been determined. The archdiocese will offer severance and outplacement support to employees whose positions will be eliminated.

• Reorganizing pastoral and educational leadership staff to focus more clearly on services to parishes.

— Statement from archdiocese