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An Open Letter to US Dioceses, by Sheryl Collmer – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Image by Grok. Bishops with heads in sand.

By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine, Feb. 5, 2026

Sheryl Collmer is a semi-retired business consultant. She holds a Master’s in Theological Studies from the University of Dallas, as well as an MBA. From her home in the diocese of Tyler, Texas, she studies homesteading, history, and the currents in the Church.

From misuse to abuse, the time of blind giving to a bishop’s Annual Appeal is over.

The Annual Appeal was launched in our diocese this weekend, as it has been or will be in many other dioceses, with a sound-tracked video at every Mass and a step-by-step walk-through of the completion of pledge cards. While I sympathize with the committee that came up with that tedious line-by-line approach, it doesn’t wear well on adults.

Instead, maybe give us an honest accounting of where our money has gone, the steps taken to protect and report it, and a picture of the accounting best practices that assure us the money is spent as intended. Maybe that, instead of, “On the first line, write your name. We’ll wait.”…

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