The financial structure of the Catholic Church is decentralized. Each of the
194 dioceses in America is autonomous. The roughly 20,000 churches within those
dioceses raise an estimated $7.5 billion annually, which the dioceses use
individually to pay salaries, run schools, and fund charitable institutions.
Once a year a collection known as ''Peter's Pence'' is taken up in each of
those churches which is forwarded to the Vatican, and there are other small
streams of money that run to the Holy See.
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