AND one of THE BIGGEST IS: CATHOLIC CHARITIES!!!!!
I used to give to that organization and EVERY year they asked for money from all the parishes...So far this year I haven't seen anything at church except a blip in the bulletin...Wonder if they have learned their lesson?
An organization can ONLY go to the well so often before it dries up!!!
...you would think that Catholic Charities USA would be a perfect model to emulate, getting the poor into the mainstream by emphasizing moral values and ethical conduct. But no: rather than trying to promote traditional values and God-fearing behavior, Catholic Charities—and the same could be said about the Association of Jewish Family and Children's Agencies or the Lutheran Services in America—has become over the last three decades an arm of the welfare state, with 65 percent of its $2.3 billion annual budget now flowing from government sources and little that is explicitly religious, or even values-laden...Far from being a model for reforming today's welfare-state approach to helping the poor, Catholic Charities USA is one of the nation's most powerful advocates for outworn welfare-state ideas, especially the idea that social and economic forces over which the individual has no control, rather than his own attitudes and behavior, are the reason for poverty...
AND one of THE BIGGEST IS: CATHOLIC CHARITIES!!!!!
I used to give to that organization and EVERY year they asked for money from all the parishes...So far this year I haven't seen anything at church except a blip in the bulletin...Wonder if they have learned their lesson?
An organization can ONLY go to the well so often before it dries up!!!
Great article. How Catholic Charities Lost it's Soul https://www.city-journal.org/article/how-catholic-charities-lost-its-soul