The St. Louis Archdiocese and the local affiliate of Catholic Charities are involved in a dispute over the bishop’s demand that the charity turn over its fund-raising operations to the archdiocese, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The archdiocese’s acting leader, Bishop Robert Hermann, has said that he wants to better coordinate fund raising with the charity, hoping to combine the two organizations’ development offices to avoid donor fatigue. But former Catholic Charities board member James Gunn has accused archdiocesan officials of wanting to take over fund-raising efforts to promote conservative Catholic ideals at the expense of social services.