No accountability for the Catholic Church

[Catholic_Lady]

Part of the collection basket money does go to the poor. And they often also have a second collection at the end of mass that goes entirely to the poor.

But the vast majority goes into the church's accounts, and I'm assuming a very large portion goes to the Vatican.

I'm looking at my church's bulletin right now, from a couple weeks ago. We kept it because there's an event we want to go to. 

Anyway, according to the bulletin, the little church I go to made $4,551.02 on the Sunday of October 9 from collection basket money. Of those funds, it's showing that $1,479.92 went to a charity called Hope for the Future. I usually don't pay attention to the part in the bulletin where it says how much was made and how much went to what charity, but I do know it's usually a fixed percentage every week and it goes to a different charity every week. A few months ago I remember seeing that the donations went to Louisiana when they had that massive flood. 

That's nearly 1/3 of the funds they made being given to charity. Not a small amount at all. Of the other 2/3 that are left over, I don't know how much of it stays in the local church and how much goes off the to Vatican, but I do know the majority of it does actually stay in the local church. Since people don't have to pay an entrance fee to go to church, the donation $$ the church keeps to itself is used to pay for the expenses of the place, upkeep, and paying the employees.