German Church tightens belt, despite church tax boost

German Church tightens belt, despite church tax boost

The Catholic Church in Germany announced austerity measures Monday, despite reporting an increase in annual church tax revenue days earlier.Limburg Cathedral, right, in Hesse, Germany. WoGo55/wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0.Beate Gilles, general secretary of the German bishops’ conference, said July 7 that Church officials needed to make “hard cuts” to expenditure from a common fund known as the Association of the Dioceses of Germany, citing a declining …