Finally. And it’s thanks to lay people who are leading the way.
Business Week has an excellent story on the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management (NLRM) and its founder and guiding light, Geoffrey Boisi:

Along with issuing guidelines for a financial audit of all 195 dioceses (the territory under the authority of a bishop), the group has created best-practice guides for church leaders in such areas as human resources and accounting and has won kudos within the Catholic community for helping restore the Catholic school system in Katrina-battered New Orleans. “All we’re doing is applying those skills and experiences that we’ve had,” says Boisi.

Boisi and the NLRM faced skpeticism from much of the hierarchy at first, but has persisted, and their growing collaboration with the bishops is one of the great–and unheralded–success stories of the post-scandal church.

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