Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Will U.S. Catholics keep giving? - Pope Benedict XVI - MSNBC.com

Will U.S. Catholics keep giving? - Pope Benedict XVI - MSNBC.com: "Will U.S. Catholics keep giving?
Demographics, sex abuse scandal squeeze church budgets

By Steve Johnson
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 9:47 a.m. ET April 25, 2005While the 80 million American Catholics make up only 6 percent of their church's membership worldwide, their financial contributions � as much as a third of the Vatican's annual fund-raising for the pontiff's charities � has long given them a special place at the Vatican. "

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