Money’s fungible. How much do the Catholic Church’s various arms get from Fedzilla?
And with US Catholics being such a small percentage of the worldwide total, I don’t think the Vatican’s bean counters are too worried.
Now if the rest if the planet starts holding onto their wallets...
Don’t be so sure about that. The U.S.-based ‘Papal Foundation’ has been a source of direct payments of tens of millions of dollars directly to the Vatican. Outside its rent and investment income in Italy, the Holy See’s main sugar daddies are the U.S. and Germany (through it’s church tax). If American purses close up, they ain’t makin’ up the difference in Nigeria or the Philippines.
You may be right but big changes can have small beginnings. The laity has to start somewhere, the only other moral option is to leave the Church altogether.
It’d be hard for US laity to shut the Vatican down financially.
But concerted effort on the part of US laity could shut down various US dioceses. Most money in most dioceses comes either from the parish assessments (bishop’s tax on collections at Mass), or the bishop’s appeal.
If US laity failed to contribute to the diocese directly, AND withheld all contributions to the collection baskets, I imagine the homoclerical demonocracy would start selling assets to survive, but after they sell the last Catholic school, convent under their control, and parish, they’ll start to starve.
Well the protest is now beyond the USA. Just seeing the pictures from Ireland is telling.