The Parish Finance Council is to have an active and defined role in advising and
assisting the pastor in administering the temporal affairs of the parish by
utilizing the skills and expertise of the finance council members in monitoring
the financial activity of the parish

Means for Mission: Diocese of Pittsburgh Parish Finance Council Guidelines

The Code of Canon Law states that:
“Each parish is to have a finance council which is regulated by universal law as well as by norms issued by the diocesan bishop; in this council the Christian faithful, selected according to the same norms, aid the pastor in the administration of parish goods with due regards for the prescription of canon 532.” (Canon 537)