She we see Catholics stop going and giving money, then we will believe it.
Our parish priest is a vocal critic of the pope, as are many others-and this place is remote enough that he can speak out-to his very appreciative parishioners, of which I am one-and FYI, the money that goes into the collection basket in individual churches is used only to maintain that church and the priest’s residence-unless there is a separate special collection for some other purpose-we get an accurate accounting of the funds every year.
Historically speaking, Catholics-or those of any other denomination-don’t usually leave their faith over a bad church leader, unless their faith was less than strong in the first place-the pope is not God-there have been worse popes-especially in the Middle Ages-the Church survived them and it will survive this one, too...
That is only a threat seen on the pages of FR.
The money that Catholics give to their local church does not go to Rome.