"Charity Begins at Home." Just ask the Catholic CEOs with their exorbitant salaries!

The Catholic bishops are suing the government. Are we surprised? Isn't that what leftists always do when the gravy train is under threat. How many times has Planned Parenthood sued to keep their baby-killing machine at full speed ahead supported with billions from the taxpayers?

Well, well, well -- The USCCB is suing the Trump Administration because they cut off the gravy train!

You will never hear the term "illegal alien" from the U.S. bishops. Every law breaker violating our borders is a poor "refugee" and we must "welcome the stranger." But don't expect them to be welcomed into the bishops residence or the chancery. 

Make Your Charity Dollars Count -- Our Lady of the Poor, Pray for Us!

USAID isn't the only government "welfare" organization targeted by the new administration. Catholic Charities (CC), a well-funded NGO, is also on the chopping block these days. No tears from me, that's for sure! I'll be happy to see them get the boot. 

Won't the U.S. Bishops Love This!

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Announces End to Funding for NGOs Aiding Illegal Immigration

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has been enabling grievous sins for years. They support distribution of contraceptives in the third world and assist organizations that fund abortion. The CCHD (Catholic Campaign for Human Development) and Catholic Charities are pigmies next to the evil giant of CRS. I rejoice over defunding these groups that enable so much evil. We can expect howling from the bishops, but the taxpayers will benefit. Charity is a Catholic obligation and the bishops should be preaching that, but their charities distribute poison along with their rice bowls. The bishops no longer have the confidence of Catholic in the pew. Catholics once were a powerhouse to be feared in the voting booth. The bishops squandered our power long ago by embracing liberalism, preaching seamless garment garbage, and going for the money. Love of money is the root of all evils and the USCCB often seems to love the almighty dollar more than Almighty God.  Cut the funding and close the massive Catholic bureaucracy in D.C. We will all benefit!

Well...It's Official...Catholic Charities is Racist. Rob the Racist explains it!

Thanks to One Mad Mom for alerting me to this...um...oh gosh, I can't call it what it is. Ladies don't use that kind of language so I'll just call it horse hockey! Be sure to read One Mad Mom's commentary. Rob McCann, the featured madman, is CEO of Catholic Charities Eastern Washington. By supporting an organization that champions intrinsic evils like sodomy and Marxist principles, he demonstrates how decidedly un-Catholic he is.

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:

A Few Good Reasons Not to Support Catholic Charities

There are plenty of truly Catholic organizations that serve the poor without getting mixed up in these disgraceful and scandalous situations! I wouldn't give one red cent to Catholic Charities since it often isn't Catholic or even charitable.

Catholic Charities exec on board of organization that fought to save Planned Parenthood funding

Planned Parenthood infanticide supporter was on board of Catholic Charities

Richmond Catholic Charities Takes Minor for Abortion

Are Catholic Charities Really Catholic?

There once was a time when Catholics could put their envelopes in a special collection for one of the bishops' charities confident that the money would be spent in accordance with Catholic teaching. That time, unfortunately, is long past. And, in fact, some charities, like the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) have, from their inception, supported organizations working in direct opposition to the faith. One would like to think that CCHD is an aberration, but, judging from other major Catholic charities, it is not. Caritas Internationalis, Catholic Charities, and Catholic Relief Services all have abused the trust shown to them by Catholics in the pew.

The pope's recent condom statement brought a cheerful reaction from Caritas Internationalis which works with AIDS programs. They released a statement welcoming the pope's comments on condoms. It included this quote from Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight:

“The Pope’s reported comments in this book illustrate the importance of compassion and sensitivity in dealing with the complexities of HIV/AIDS prevention. Caritas delivers its HIV/AIDS programmes in line with Church Teaching and we will consider, in close consultation with the Holy See, whether there are implications for our work in these reported comments of Pope Benedict.”

Shall I translate that for you. "Hey, we've always supported condoms now we look forward to doing it openly with the pope's approval." Is that a slur on Caritas? I don't think so. Unfortunately, all the major Catholic charities are tainted by the fact that they take massive amounts of money from the government and anti-life foundations that support condom distribution and other anti-Catholic solutions to worldly problems. On top of that the charities commonly hire liberals who personally oppose Church teaching to fill key jobs. They also participate in coalitions that include organizations that support abortion, homosexuality, and are enemies of the traditional family.

Caritas is no different. Caritas-Europa, for example, is a member of End Poverty, a group that includes Planned Parenthood International and other problematic members like the European Social Action Network (EASN). They describe themselves as a "coalition of European NGO (non-governmental organization) networks." Their goal is "to advocate for a strong political legacy" (stress in the original)in the European Union (EU). Now what exactly does that mean?  

If you examine End Poverty's goals they includes the usual assortment of liberal issues: redistribution of income, environmentalism, elimination of "social exclusion" for any groups (including LGBT), etc. Building a "strong political legacy," they say, requires "A new overarching social and sustainable EU strategy, based on fundamental rights (stress in original), which puts people and planet first and makes progress on eradicating poverty and inequality a pre‐requisite in the development of all EU policies." Sounds impressive, but terms aren't defined and some of the language about rights and inequality has been used in other international documents and at United Nations meetings to mean the right to abortion and special rights for LGBT groups. Since some members of the coalition support abortion and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is an attack on the family through an attack on parental authority, healthy skepticism is appropriate. And what exactly is a Catholic charity doing supporting "redistribution of income" in the first place? Forced charity is an oxymoron and violates justice.

While paying lip service to "putting people first," there's not one word in End Poverty's document about protecting the rights of the most vulnerable person, the unborn child, or defending the rights of the family. Since the breakdown of the family is the greatest cause of poverty, ignoring the family altogether is inexcusable, but not surprising considering the anti-family agenda of some of the members.

Caritas is certainly not alone in their questionable actions.Anyone paying attention to national and international Catholic charities knows, for the most part, they aren't really Catholic at all. Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is notorious! So is Catholic Charities which lost its soul years ago when it chose  political activism and government money over the corporal works of mercy and the Catholic rule of subsidiarity. In my own diocese, Catholic Charities ran a teen sexuality program in the 80s (funded by a government grant) that used Planned Parenthood materials and featured speakers who undermined Church teaching. My husband and I attended with our son and I specifically remember the doctor who said "masturbation is no problem" to this group of 13-year-olds.

What about Catholic Relief Services? In 2008 Catholic World Report (CRS) ran an exposé on the international charity titled The Church Betrayed by moral theologian Germain Grisez. Grisez went into extended detail on an AIDS education program that used materials developed by CRS implying that condoms were the best way to avoid AIDS (after a passing mention of abstinence) and masturbation was an acceptable alternative form of sexual expression. (They used the term massage, but one gets the idea.) Fornication was implied as well even for teens. The program included a "flip chart" developed by and the property of CRS with their logo deliberately excluded. Apparently, the powers that be recognized the ticklish situation if they were known as the authors of the problematic materials. And so CRS covered it up. In fact, Jared M. Hoffman, an executive with CRS headquarters in Baltimore, in a letter accompanying the CD with the educational materials, which was sent out to "colleagues" in many countries, specifically forbade the CRS logo from appearing on them. Why? "CRS," Hoffman wrote, "has chosen not to include the CRS or AIDSRelief logo on the flipchart, due to the potential sensitivity of the information contained in these materials among Church partners."

Professor Grisez called for the bishops to investigate CRS, but Archbishop Timothy Dolan, head of the CRS board, sent a letter to his brother bishops after the article was published assuring them that all was well, and no investigation was needed. He also defamed Professor Grisez by misrepresenting the article and accusing him of saying things he never said. It was business as usual at a big Catholic charity, something that has become all too familiar to Catholics in the pew.

Unfortunately, the strategy of the bishops for addressing scandals that regularly arise about their so-called Catholic charities is: 1) circle the wagon, 2) drag out a barrel of whitewash to cover up the scandal, and 3) spin the facts to assure everyone that what happened was, of course, an aberration, a misunderstanding, a mistake that will never be repeated....until the next time. And you can be sure there will be a next time because those administering these charities are often liberals who oppose Church teaching and think the world's solutions are best. Church bureaucracies are filled with them and most of the bishops seem perfectly content to turn a blind eye to the problem.

So what's a faithful Catholic to do? Personally, I won't give a nickle to any of the establishment Catholic charities which will use my money, at least some of the time, to attack my beliefs. In the meantime, I give to groups I trust. The answer in the long run, I believe, is the establishment of a truly Catholic charity run by the laity that follows Catholic principles faithfully, refuses entanglement with the culture of death by taking no money from the government, supports only Catholic charitable programs, and hires only faithful Catholics as administrators, field workers, and grant reviewers. Such an institution is long overdue. Pray for the Lord of the harvest to raise one up that will produce an abundance of good grapes instead of a devastated vineyard filled with rotten fruit.

Is Catholic Charities Catholic? Follow the (government) money!

Fr. Larry Snyder, the head of Catholic Charities USA will serve with the Obama administration's Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. There's no question that Father's decision is good for the administration. They continually play the game that pro-death liberals are really pro-life as they mandate abortion-on-demand for third world nations and plan to promote abortion full speed ahead with no brakes whatsoever here in the U.S. It's 1984's newspeak Love is hate and hate is love; black is white and white is black. Get used to the double-talk, even from men in Roman collars.

While acknowledging there are "disagreements" with the administration, Snyder says there are places where their policies "converge" especially with the "poor and the marginalized." Translation: We'll use your tax dollars to "do charity" like supporting bad loans and facilitating illegal immigration.

Father also claims, “There can be no doubt that Catholic Charities is a firmly pro-life organization." Really?

Excuse my cynicism, but is that the same Catholic Charities that arranged the abortion of a 16-year-old in Richmond, VA not long ago? Is it the same group that took federal funding in my own diocese in the mid 80s for a horrible sex ed program for middle schoolers that used Planned Parenthood materials and speakers who said there was "no problem with masturbation?" Is that the Catholic Charities that in San Francisco joined with "Family Builders" so they could continue adoption services to gays? (Fortunately they did not renew the contract in 2008. One suspects the earlier decision cut into their donations.) And what about the CC employees who support the culture of death? Diogenes from Catholic World News listed a number of them in a 2003 Off the Record article.

Catholic Charities has become an arm of liberal, big-tax-and-spend government. How much CC money goes to lobby for more federal and state funding (not to mention fundraise)? It's no wonder Fr. Snyder accepted the position. CC is already on the government payroll bigtime and we gotta keep the money flow coming. So cozy up to the most pro-abortion, pro-infanticide administration in history. What if it does give Obama and company cover for their evil agenda...as long as the money tree keeps producing!

For dozens of article on Catholic Charities' unsavory history, visit Catholic Culture. And give your hard-earned money to a real charity, for example the Missionaries of Charity or a local crisis pregnancy center. The phrase "government charity" is an oxymoron.