In Mortgage Crisis, Church Offers Financial Counseling
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church, counseling, credit crunch, crisis, financial February 21st, 2008With Brooklyn and Queens accounting for 40 percent of New York State’s home foreclosures last year, pastors in Catholic churches in the two boroughs started seeing a sharp rise in parishioners with mortgage problems last fall.
As a result, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn has put together the largest coordinated financial counseling effort since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, focusing on the most vulnerable neighborhoods, in eastern Brooklyn and Queens.
“They came to the church and the local pastors asking what can be done,” said Bishop Nicholas DeMarzio, who oversees Brooklyn and Queens. “We passed out some information sheets and those disappeared quickly, and that meant people were interested in finding out about the problem.”
Diocese officials said that the counseling will be done in English, Spanish and Creole.
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