To help Guam's Catholic Church correct
past financial mismanagement, pay debts and properly fund chancery
operations, village parishes will see an average of
186-percent increases in assessment fees.
This means up to a 1,146-percent hike for the Maina parish, for example, which used to pay only $107.82, church data shows. The
Dededo parish, the biggest, will be assessed $10,763.45 instead of the
$5,481.26 imposed six years ago, or an increase of 96 percent.