Dealing with an annual operating deficit of $10 million a year for the last five years, the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., plans to eliminate 30 positions in the coming weeks, according to a memo sent June 5 to archdiocesan staff.
"Several vacant positions will be left unfilled, and a number of dedicated, hard-working employees will lose their jobs," Cardinal Robert McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., wrote in the memo, a copy of which was obtained by the National Catholic Reporter.
Faced with what he described as "crippling economic challenges" to the archdiocese's administrative center, McElroy said he had recently come to the "painful realization that the only way forward" was to take "drastic measures" to achieve a balanced budget by July 1.
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