Editor’s Note: This sum is 10 times the annual Vatican City State Budget. And thus, even if no USAID is going to the Vatican balance sheet, the disruption in fund raising in the U.S. by Catholic organizations is very likely to have direct or indirect consequences on Vatican finances, which gets as much as 60% in recent years from U.S. Sources. — Those rumors of Vatican bankruptcy might become real news this year. The Question is whether the Cardinals will urge Pope Francis to resign as a solution?