Matthew 23:3

Almost 100 million Americans have been baptized Catholic. And the American Church accounts for as much as 60% of the entire Church’s wealth. In the US, there are 6,800 Catholic schools, 630 hospitals, and 244 colleges and universities.

The American Catholic Church spent about $170 billion in 2010, and Catholic institutions employ over 1 million people. For purposes of secular comparison, in 2010 General Electric’s revenue was $150 billion and Walmart employed roughly 2 million people.

Conservative estimates place annual American offertory income at around $13 billion and the Church is probably NYC's largest single landowner, on which they pay no taxes.

And while the Church is the largest single charitable organization in the country. Catholic Charities USA and its subsidiaries distributed only $4.7 billion to the poor in 2010, of which 62% came from local, state and federal government agencies. In other words, five of every eight dollars doled out by Catholic Charities were other people's taxes.