The near-universal closure of Catholic parishes that began in late March 2020 was an unprecedented event in American Catholic history: one with spiritual, pastoral, and operational consequences for the nearly 17,000 Catholic parishes in the U.S. A new study analyzes the drop in parish income across the U.S. in 2020.

The pandemic and the collection plate
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