I'm 100% behind this request.
Concerned Catholics are asking the DOJ to look into the actions of multiple Catholic related individuals and entities and their relationship and actions in response to government funding.
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Prominent Catholics ... have sent the following letter to Vice President JD Vance:
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Many Catholics believe the USCCB, Catholic dioceses, Catholic Charities, Catholic Relief Services, and all NGOs that have received government funding through the Catholic Church must make a full disclosure of how the funds were used. For example, it was reported that the Diocese of Fort Worth, TX, which has received over 1 billion dollars in federal funding, partnered with the Islamic Circle of North America that has ties with terrorist organizations.
Although the USCCB has argued that it has used federal funds primarily to help resettle vetted refugees and immigrants, one wonders if the USCCB exercised due diligence in respect to those whom they settled. How many illegal immigrants did they assist? Did any of the funds end up in the hands of cartels who are involved in criminal behavior such as sex trafficking and the smuggling of Fentanyl? What did they do to protect vulnerable children and women?
In fact, most faithful Catholics are happy that it seems that USAID will no longer be using the USCCB to help settle refugees and immigrants. It grieves us a great deal to suggest that the Church cannot be trusted, but we fear that is the case.
There's more at the link.
As regular readers will know, I served the Catholic Church as a priest and chaplain for several years, until the American bishops' abysmal, immoral, disastrous mishandling of the clergy youth sex abuse scandal led me to walk away. I saw at first hand how many Catholic organizations had become so focused on the worldly aspects of their mission that they'd almost forgotten the Divine. Some were no longer ministries - merely charities, and pretty secular ones at that. What's worse, over the past couple of decades they have become one of the principle architects and enablers of illegal alien migration into this country, abandoning what should have been their primary national loyalty in the name of transnational secular humanism.
I hope and pray the Vice President will follow up on this open letter, and do something about it. If you'd like to add your name to the list of people seeking intervention, you can sign a petition here. I've already added my name.
Hmmm . . . could we camouflage Elon Musk and a few of his D.O.G.E. assistants in cassocks, and sneak them into the next meeting of the Bishops, to penetrate their computer network and see what they've been up to? It might cause an unholy row, but then, right now that's the point, isn't it?
Peter
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That is a long overdue idea that makes sense. If these various groups / charities say they are helping, produce the numbers of people they are helping. If you want to break it down to aliens vs. US citizens, even better.
Good plan!!
..."It grieves us a great deal to suggest that the Church cannot be trusted, but we fear that is the case...."
Ya Think ? For the devout and fiathful, given the church's well-established track record, that should be the default position until evidence proves otherwise
I would rather that the State stay totally out of it. It is not just that the State has NO business sending my money to God damned organizations but this place was founded by the most religious and religiously persecuted people Europe had to offer and the State should not be delving into their activities. The delving and turning out of the bad and evil should be up to those who practice the faith. Once the government starts anything it turns instantly corrupt and there are plenty of horrible people out there already that want to make the government make war on the churches and religion. We should not help them.
And this is why I'm grateful that my church doesn't take ANY government funding from any country - we operate entirely on tithes, offerings, and carefully managed investments. It means we're entirely independent of politics and can make our own decisions about where the church's budget is spent.
People complain about it all the time, but as a 'rich' church, we give charitably with our own funds, not taxpayer money. There is thus much less potential for this kind of abuse.
My wife interned at a Catholic Charities Home For Unwed Mothers in Houston while working on her Social Work masters back in 1980 - 1981. Catholic Charities appears to have lost their way since then.
Around that area
FWIW
“What Happens When You Trim Fat?”
“Today a big story at Time Magazine is “U.S. Added to Global Human Rights Watchlist Over Declining Civil Liberties.”
I know, the first thing you think is, “Is Time Magazine still in business? I didn’t even know that.” Well, apparently it is, and some people apparently think it’s a news source.
In this case, a human rights organization called CIVICUS that publishes a list scoring human rights in various countries made a press release announcing that they had added the United States to a “watchlist,” of which the other prize winners are the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan, and Serbia.”
“So what heinous crimes has America committed to place it in this rogues’ gallery? According to CIVICUS:
A spate of arbitrary executive orders has resulted in mass firings of federal government employees coupled with the takeover of key positions in the administration including the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation by Trump loyalists. They are likely to severely impact constitutional freedoms of peaceful assembly, expression, and association. … United States, once a global champion of democracy and human rights, joins the first 2025 watchlist along with Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan, and Serbia. The arbitrary US pullbacks from aid and multilateral cooperation, including the World Health Organisation and the UN Human Rights Council, will likely impact civic freedoms and reverse hard-won human rights gains around the world. [emphasis added]”
“So what puts America among countries like Pakistan and the DRC is that… the new administration brought in its own appointees to political appointments and cut funding and support to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Human Rights Council, some notable members of which include Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Cuba, and Nicaragua.”
“Curious, I looked at the estimable DataRepublican Nonprofit Financials page, where I found that in its most recent filing, CIVICUS has a total of $10,573,000 (rounded to the nearest dollar) in receipts, of which $7,882,463 — or about 75% — came from the US taxpayer.”
https://pjmedia.com/charlie-martin/2025/03/11/wqhat-happens-when-you-trim-fat-n4937812
Doesn’t mention what got Italy on that list
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