Catholic diocese gives $152,600 to anti-gay marriage campaign

Maybe it's time for its tax exemption to be revisited?

Some parishioners may have other questions:

Maine’s Catholic diocese is closing five more churches because of tight finances and changing demographics.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland says Notre Dame de Lourdes church in Saco and St. Mary of the Assumption church in neighboring Biddeford will close at the end of the year. St. Andre church in Biddeford will close at the end of 2010.

In Lewiston, St. Joseph and St. Patrick Catholic churches will close sometime in October.

The diocese Portland diocese has money to campaign against gay marriage but not to keep churches open.

Truth be told, it's amazing the diocese has any money at all given the staggering amount of sexual abuse that occurred under its watch (going back at least sixty years, we found out this week).