Who's spending Peter's Pence?

A look at the numbers behind the pope's annual collection.

Catholics around the world contributed last month — on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul — to the Vatican’s annual Peter’s Pence collection.

St. Peter’s Basilica, seen from Rome’s Via della Conciliazione. Ernesto Spaziani via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Over the last four years, the collection has shown signs of revenue growth, allowing the Vatican to use …