Endowment Crisis at the Arquidiócesis

Eight weeks to recommend a new financial architecture for a 142-parish Costarian archdiocese facing donor decline, an underfunded clergy pension, and a Catholic university about to breach bond covenants. The participant sits in the Vicar General CFO seat, applies UPMIFA prudent-spending and the Yale model under canon-law constraints, builds a hybrid recommendation, and defends it across three constituents before the Friday Finance Council vote.