There is only one official Catholic site for Church Statistics and that is CARA everything else is speculation.
Value of services provided by Catholic Charities in the year 2014 - $3.696b
FREQUENTLY REQUESTED CHURCH STATISTICS
CARA gets many inquiries from Church agencies and the media about the numbers for vocations, seminary enrollments, priests and vowed religious, parishes, Mass attendance, schools and the Catholic population. Below are some comparative statistics from 1965. Generally, these data reflect the situation at the beginning of the calendar year listed. The sources for this information include The Official Catholic Directory (OCD), the Vatican’s Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae (ASE), and other CARA research and databases. All data are cross checked as much as possible. For the U.S, the numbers reported here include only figures for those 195 dioceses or eparchies who belong to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. This includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and all U.S. military personnel stationed overseas. Entries reading “—” have no data available at this time and “na” is not applicable.
Following the U.S. and World data tables below CARA provides link to CARA research about other Frequently Asked Questions. For more information about CARA research and statistics, including our national and parish surveys, demographic studies, trend analyses and projections, and focus groups visit CARA Services. For more information about CARA’s beginings read the following Review of Religious Research article from 1967 by Francis X. Gannon entitled, “Bridging the Research Gap”
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Whoa.....stop the train there. The value of services given??
Who is doing the valuing?
So you go from an "iffing" figure of $30 billion down to a somewhat more verifiable $3.6 billion???
Man, you've got a future in government with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics!