If you read and have been discussing with friends and colleagues the article from The Economist, "Earthly concerns," [1] about the royal mess U.S. church finances are in, you need to be reading Mark Gray’s excellent postings on Nineteen Sixty-four [2], a research blog for the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University.

Read down to the update, were Gray re-runs some of The Economist's figures:

Good stuff here. Read the full blog posting [3].