text: "...transparency is the only way to win trust."
  
  Amen, Kathleen.  If Dolan wants money from parishes, he needs to be talking to parishioners and he needs to be showing the good that is done with the money that is given to the archdiocese.  So much news is about parish closings, school closings - and what was spent to refurbish St. Patricks.  But what was done for the poor and those in need in all these parishes?  I don't relate very well to millions spent to defeat legislation that would extend the statue of limitations on child sex abuse.  I wouldn't relate well to money spent to defeat gay marriage or money spent to "protect" the Little Sisters from having to include contraceptives in health insurance for all the non-nuns who work for them.  Or money spent on lawyers and press spokespersons when a good member of a parish is fired from a job for marrying his/her same sex partner.  
  
  He needs to find out what parishioners want to spend money on.  Don't think it is culture wars.