The Vatican does have a lot of money, but the Vatican does not fund catholic schools here in the states. And the local churches are having a hard enough time keeping their own doors open, with dwindling mass attendance and dwindling contributions. So the schools sort of have to fend for themselves. The whole priest/pedophile mess has cost the Catholic church big time, both in reputation and in actual dollars. The church has seen a large drop in attendance, in large part due to people being disgusted with the whole pedophile mess and leaving the church, and the church has paid out billions to settle a lot of these cases. Yes, it's totally a self-inflicted wound, but my point is, the church isn't in the best financial shape these days.