WHEELING Despite a tumultuous 2020 fiscal year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston took the necessary steps to keep its finances stable, according to an independent audit released Friday.
That audit was just the second full audit released to the public in the diocese’s history, spokesman Tim Bishop said. The first was released last year. The diocese had released financial statements before that, but never a full audit.
In his letter to the diocese about the audit, the Most Rev. Mark Brennan, bishop of the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese, likened the 2019-20 fiscal year to “the roller coaster rides I took as a youth: lots of ups and downs.”
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WHEELING The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston wants its members to have a voice in its present and future. To do that, the Most Rev. Mark Brennan, Diocesan bishop, has reestablished a group that will give laypeople that opportunity.
The Diocesan Pastoral Council is back and will hold its first meeting in nearly 15 years this month. Diocese spokesman Tim Bishop said the faithful deserve the chance to help move the church forward.
“You can’t go wrong involving the laypeople,” he said. “It’s their church, too. This is all of our church. The church belongs to all of the faithful, so getting them involved and seeking their help and running ideas by them is a great thing.”
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Justin Zimmerman, headmaster of The Linsly School, stands by The Aviator statue at Banes Hall on the schoolâs Leatherwood campus.
WHEELING Students at The Linsly School are back to school five days a week even when it snows.
Catholic schools in Ohio County also have resumed in-person education Monday through Friday, though these students were learning remotely on Monday due to the weather.
At both The Linsly School and schools within the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, students in grades 5-8 are back at school five days a week after the COVID-19 pandemic altered those plans. High school students still must adhere to dictates of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services COVID alert map.
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WHEELING The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston wants its members to have a voice in its present and future. To do that, the Most Rev. Mark Brennan, Diocesan bishop, has reestablished a group that will give laypeople that opportunity.
The Diocesan Pastoral Council is back and will hold its first meeting in nearly 15 years this month. Diocese spokesman Tim Bishop said the faithful deserve the chance to help move the church forward.
“You can’t go wrong involving the laypeople,” he said. “It’s their church, too. This is all of our church. The church belongs to all of the faithful, so getting them involved and seeking their help and running ideas by them is a great thing.”