Corruption in Church Charities

I gave up giving to any special collections years ago. Sad to say, the Catholic Church can no longer be trusted with your charity dollars. When you put your dollars in the basket for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) or Catholic Charities or Catholic Relief Services (CRS) you don't have to guess whether you are funding evil, you know it! Catholic Relief Services has been documented again and again to be up to their necks in supporting abortion and contraception in the third world. Leaders in those organizations have sold their souls for the Almighty Dollar. Getting grants from the government is more important than saving souls. They are an instrument of the evil one.

Catholic Relief Services has been under the microscope recently and the picture in the lens is far from pretty:

Catholic Relief Service Scandals

Find buckets of information about CRS at this website. You'll find information about the pro-abortion backgrounds of their employees, their support for pro-abortion/pro-contraception groups, explicit activities that violate Church teachings, etc. This is why you should NEVER EVER give to CRS. There are many groups doing good work in the third world without funding abortion/contraception. Support them. The bishops apparently lack interest in overseeing their charities to the degree that they have become enablers of evil. The only solution is to cut off the money.

More on Catholic Relief Services and the CARE Scandal

Giving $5+ million to CARE and claiming none of the money will help their "other" immoral services is like claiming you can give $5 million to a comprehensive women's clinic for cancer screening without helping promote their abortion services. At the very least you provide them good PR and strengthen their existence. CRS claims they got the go-ahead from the National Catholic Bioethics Center, but it seems the picture is a little murkier. As I've said before -- hold on to your wallet and don't give to any "Catholic" charity that 1) accepts government funding, 2) hires those without a Catholic heart to screen grants, and 3) gives to secular groups with goals diametrically opposed to the Church. We have needy missionaries, for heaven's sake!

THE CARE SCANDAL Continued...