On another thread, it was proposed that we simplify our Church structures. If we were less top heavy, with less administration costs and overhead, would it make it easier to respond to change, react to currect conditions, and help us to reach out for our future?

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Proposal....

Let's unilaterally close the eparchial offices of Passaic, Van Nys, and Parma, and usher the staff out of the offices.

Other 'companies' and institutions are doing it! It must make financial sense.

Let's down-size the heirarchy, and go back to having a simple single Exarch in Pittsburgh. We would cut the cost of administration by three fourths, and eliminate an awful lot of overhead.

If necessary, the bishops and their retinues and staffs can be removed by armed guards.

We'll save tens of thousands of dollars every month, and then they can lower the taxes and 'bishops appeals' that have crippled so many parishes and pushed the people in debt to these bishops.

...simplify, that's my new mantra!

Let's simplify our top heavy administration. A Church this size, cannot afford the obese and insensitive administrative structures now in place.

Nick