By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - To put those numbers in context, the Vatican’s expenditures have been approximately $300 million a year. So unless there are dramatic budget cuts, at least one-fifth, and maybe as much as one-half of the Vatican budget will be written in red ink. Obviously this is unsustainable... A significant part of the problem that faces Father Guerrero this year has been caused, or at least aggravated, by the CO19 epidemic and the shutdown of the world’s economies.