projo.com | Providence, R.I. | Opinion: Columnists: "David A. Mittell Jr.: Keep pols out of church's crisis
01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, August 18, 2005
BOSTON
STATE SEN. Marian Walsh (D.-Dedham) has filed legislation requiring churches in Massachusetts to submit annual reports to the state detailing their collections, expenditures, funds on hand, investments, real-estate holdings, etc.
The proposed law would apply to all religions, and their churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, tents or storefronts. But the clear impetus for the bill was two cataclysmic events in the Roman Catholic Church: the long-running sexual-abuse scandal and the closure of many venerable parishes in the Boston Archdiocese."
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