This is it and you may have misread the piece which states:
“Another myth is that the Vatican is ultra-wealthy, he said. The ANNUAL operating budget of the Vatican City State is $270 million, he said, comparing that with the annual operating budget of Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana which is $1.2 billion.
The Catholic Church in the United States collects $200 million a week, almost enough in a week to fund the Vatican for a year, he said.”
http://catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/exploding-myths-about-the-vatican/
The Catholic Church in the US does not send the Vatican $200 million a week.
The article states that $200 million is enough to fund the Vatican for one year which if you go back to my post, is close to the amount of revenue from worldwide collection of Peter’s Pence, a little over $200million PER YEAR.
I apologize. I did misread the piece. And thank you for correcting it. It did seem a HUGE amount of money to be sending there when there are Catholic Churches here in desperate need of repair. Once again, please accept my apology.