A detailed examination of the Catholic Church's remarkable failure to protect its primary source of income: the Sunday collections. The phenomenon of Sunday collection embezzlement in the Catholic Church in America (the focus of this book) ultimately owes its existence to a decades-old decision on the part of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to shun the Church-wide implementation of readily available, low-cost procedures that would virtually guarantee that every dollar placed in the collections is, in fact, deposited into the parish bank account. No objective reader will walk away from this book with anything less than a stunning example of institutional nonfeasance. Most Catholics will also find themselves wondering: Who or what purpose is being served by this colossal failure to act?