Bishops Approve Resolution on Diocesan Financial Reporting
At their General Meeting in November 2000, the bishops of the United States unanimously approved a resolution regarding diocesan financial reporting.
Bishop Joseph P Delaney, Bishop of Fort Worth, chaired a committee consisting of Bishop Robert Bank of Green Bay, Bishop Norman McFarland, retired Bishop of Orange, Bishop Daniel Walsh of Santa Rosa, and Bishop Donald W Trautman of Erie, who is also the Episcopal Moderator of the DFMC. Noting that the NCCB had published Diocesan Accounting and Financial Reporting in 1971, Accounting Principles and Reporting Practices for Churches and Church Related Organizations in