Ask to see the community’s annual financial statement. Ensure your local bishop is supportive. And remember: you are always free in conscience to give less than 10%—but if you do, you may not feel "at home" in the movement.

The Way has produced over 1,000 priests from Redemptoris Mater seminaries. These seminaries operate almost exclusively on the third basket. Supporters claim that without the tithe, the rapid missionary expansion of the Way (especially in secularized Europe and poor countries) would be impossible.

The Code of Canon Law (Can. 1262) leaves tithing as a local custom, not a universal precept. Many bishops have complained that the Way’s tithe bypasses the parish offertory, starving local parishes of funds. In some dioceses (e.g., in Italy and Spain), bishops have forbidden the Way from collecting the "bishop’s basket" directly, demanding it go through the diocesan curia.

★★★☆☆ (3.5/5) – A powerful tool for mission when done in freedom and transparency; a potential source of scruples and division when done under compulsion.