The USCCB is NOT your local parish. The local diocese are very much on their own for funding. Some have even been shut down for lack of local funding and incorporated into others. So, yes, your local church does need your money to stay in operation. Otherwise, those priests can be reassigned to other missions and a neighboring priest sent out to your county once on Sunday, maybe even once every other Sunday.
The USCCB is NOT paying the bills for your local parish. They absolutely need our money, and THAT's how we can influence them.
They don't need any fucking donations.
The USCCB is NOT paying the bills for your local parish. They absolutely need our money, and THAT's how we can influence them.