Officials optimistic eucharistic congress in Quebec won't run deficit

Published: 2008-05-07

QUEBEC CITY (CNS) -- The cost of hosting the International Eucharistic Congress in Quebec City in June is expected to be more than double the original estimate, but organizers are optimistic there will be no deficit. "I'm confident our budget will be balanced," said Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet, president of the planning committee for the June 15-22 event. He noted that a special collection for the congress will be held in each parish in Canada May 25 -- the feast of Corpus Christi -- as part of a two-year commitment made by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. "We received, last year, a little more than a million (dollars) from the first collection, and we hope the second one will be more than this figure," Cardinal Ouellet said at a news conference April 24 at the diocesan center in Quebec. Currently, Canadian and U.S. dollars are worth about the same.

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