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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Joseph Klein’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
As the immense human tragedy at the nation’s southern border unfolds, an organization claiming to fight for the vulnerable remains breathtakingly silent.
That organization, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, vigorously fought President Donald Trump’s efforts to build a wall to curtail the trafficking in human lives — especially children — and drugs that accompany the kind of open borders Pope Francis advocates. But since Joe Biden became America’s virtual president, and especially since Title 42 expired, the bishops’ public opposition to federal policy evaporated.
Why the glaring reversal?
For the USCCB and various Catholic agencies, illegal immigration means wealth. The Catholic Church in the United States exploits Latin American migrants entering illegally to enrich itself with money from taxpayers.
The amount of federal immigration funding Catholic agencies received during the past 15 years grew exponentially. For Fiscal Year 2008, those organizations received $85 million. In Fiscal Year 2022, the total exploded to $618 million. During those 15 years, Catholic groups received $3.053 billion, among the highest totals for all charitable agencies.
Catholic Charities USA led the way with $1.86 billion during that period. Grant totals from individual years ranged from $25 million in 2008 to $383 million last year. The USCCB placed second with $422 million accrued over 15 years. Individual yearly totals increased from $25 million in 2008 to $140 million in 2022.
All those totals can be divided into prime awards and subawards. Prime awards describe direct federal funding. Subawards describe any money a group receives from an agency getting a prime award.
From 2008-2022, the USCCB received $1.113 billion from Washington in prime awards for immigration, the fifth largest total among all agencies. The USCCB then distributed $743 million in subawards, the most by any single group, with $586 million going to Catholic Charities.
“The USCCB essentially acts as a general contractor having the largest pipeline amongst all the players,” reported Complicit Clergy, which compiled the statistics.
So what does the church do with all that money?
“Immigration is an income-producing issue at the diocesan level,” wrote Maureen Mullarkey, a traditionalist Catholic commentator. “As bishops struggle to maintain infrastructure, they have incentive to breathe divine purpose into practical politics: ‘Our purpose is to help Catholics form their consciences in accordance with God’s truth.’ ”
Complicit Clergy also noted the $3 billion in federal funding received matches the figure that dioceses and archdioceses lost in settling claims of clerical sex abuse.
Insuring the constant flow of cash means actively encouraging and even helping migrants bypass legal channels to enter the United States. In other words, the USCCB and Catholic agencies participate in human trafficking.
“The Catholic ‘Underground Railroad’ of migrant safe houses that extend across Central America, through Mexico, and up to and into the U.S. is a well-oiled machine,” wrote Michelle Malkin. For example, the Franciscans operate one in the Mexican state of Tabasco on the southern Gulf coast. Catholic nuns manage another in the nearby state of Chiapas, near Guatemala’s border. The Scalabrinian Order runs a shelter in Tijuana, part of a network it established in 1999.
In Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, the Jesuit Refugee Service “opens its churches and pastoral centers to provide shelter, monetary aid, voluntary aid and emergency assistance,” Malkin wrote. “Its team of lawyers, psychologists, social workers and Jesuit clergy spread from Tapachula to Comalapa (in Guatemala) and Mexico City.” Members also personally guided large caravans to the United States.
Many safe houses receive supplies from the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration, which also provides legal and counseling services. Funding not only comes from federal grants to Catholic organizations but also through church collections. In 2019, Francis donated $500,000 from Peter’s Pence, which raises funds from parishioners every June, “to provide housing, food and basic necessities to the migrants,” reported Catholic News Agency.
In December, as part of a wider investigation into the role of NGOs in human smuggling, the Heritage Foundation revealed Catholic Charities’ pivotal position. By geofencing the agency’s facility in San Juan, Texas, the foundation discovered nearly 3,400 separate mobile phones linked to anonymous contacts in 433 of the nation’s 435 Congressional districts.
“Now we can prove what border security experts have long known — NGOs that support these radical policies are facilitating it,” the Heritage Foundation’s Mike Howell, a former oversight counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement. “The NGOs are happy to step into the breach and form the final link in the drug cartels’ human smuggling operation, ensuring these individuals make it all around the country.”
Those individuals include children. Since 2016, the Unaccompanied Alien Children Program has received more prime grants than any other federal immigration program. UAC funding has increased in 12 of the past 15 fiscal years, reaching an all-time high of $2.709 billion in 2022. Of that amount, about $97 million went to Catholic agencies, “a conservative figure,” said Elizabeth Yore, former general counsel for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
Yet with all that funding, Catholic agencies appear to care little for the safety of those children.
“We know that children have been trafficked through the program,” said Tara Lee Rodas, who inspects government agencies. “Your trafficker in Guatemala, he’s got to use the cartel to get his children across Mexico. But once he gets the children to the U.S. border, we take them. We care for them. We clothe them. We feed them. Then with your dollars, my dollars and the dollars of every person watching, we fly that product directly to the trafficker.”
Many sponsors also enter the country illegally. An investigation from Project Veritas found 44 children living at one address and another 25 at a separate address. One 16-year old admitted to being pimped by her so-called aunt.
Yore, a conservative Catholic, called Catholic Charities “probably the number one or two NGO that is handling the trafficking of children,” she said. “Sexual predators go where vulnerable children are. You can’t tell me that there aren’t hundreds, if not thousands, of sexual predators who are posing as sponsors for these vulnerable children.”
Should anyone be surprised the Catholic bishops are shockingly silent on child trafficking, sex trafficking and drug trafficking? Should anyone be surprised the bishops fail or refuse to support innocent Americans of all ethnicities victimized by criminal immigrants, especially murder, as in the case of the “Angel Families”?
Should anyone be surprised the bishops seem not to have one iota of interest in the consequences of their support for illegal immigration?
“This is going to be a catastrophe for our health-care system, our criminal justice system, our educational system,” Yore said in December. “We’re not going to recognize our society in two years. The crime and the chaos in the schools is going to be unimaginable. We are going to be paying for this for decades, generations.”
So by supporting and profiting from illegal immigration, the bishops have basically declared war against their fellow countrymen – including American Catholics.
No I’m not surprised that Christianity is all about altruism and human sacrifice. Like the mysticism and supernaturalism of the Aztecs and the Incas, human sacrifice (the Crucifixion) is at the heart of Christianity. I’m not surprised that Christianity has nothing to do with the pursuit of personal happiness and wealth on Earth.
I’m not surprised that Christianity is all about sacrificing lives and the pursuit of death. The Lutherans were staunch supporters of Hitler. The Dark and Middle Ages were directly caused by the insanity of Christian superstition, mysticism, supernaturalism, and altruism (self-sacrifice).
It is dangerous and disastrous to attribute the secular and rational ideas and values of freedom, liberty, individual rights, private property rights, the personal pursuit of happiness on Earth, the American way of life which is Laissez-Faire Capitalism to Christianity and Judaism (Rodney Stark and Dennis Prager are dangerous charlatans).
In historical and philosophical fact it is quite the opposite, Judaism prepared the ground for Christianity, and both prepared the ground for Islam and Marxism. As Objectivist philosopher Leonard Peikoff correctly states, “Christianity prepared the ground for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three philosophical fundamentals in the Western mind, in metaphysics the worship of the supernatural, in epistemology the reliance on faith, and in ethics the reverence for self-sacrifice… On every account, the conclusion is the same: Communism is not a new, rational philosophy; it is a tired, slavishly imitative heir of religion.”
“It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.” – Ayn Rand
Ah yes, dragging out the oldies but goodies. The Catholics are against human happiness and support death and human sacrifice. The Lutherans were staunch supporters of Hitler. The Middle Ages were caused by Christianity. Christianity prepared the ground for modern totalitarianism. And Dennis Prager is a charlatan.
Of course these are simply your warped opinions and there is never a scintilla of sourcing or proof for your crackpot claims.. Your solution….we should all become atheists and embrace laisez faire capitalism. It’s very easy to opine and pull out your worn out digital collection of notecards and cut and paste your usual gibberish. Fortunately, for the rest of us, that is all you do. Other than pushing your silly childish Objectivism you really don’t have a lot going on, do you. Ah but there is something. You get off your assets and do something about it.
Take it up with Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities, if you have the guts.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
8765 W Higgins Road
Chicago, IL 60631
Toll-Free: 800-638-3522
Catholic Charities
11708 N 80th Ave,
Peoria, AZ 85345
+1 623 218 6666
Mr. Big Talker. Too chicken sht to really do anything but whine and complain like a girly man.
There’s only one problem with the “you cite in the context of the posted article: the Catholic bishops aren’t doing this on the basis of altruism. They are manipulating altruism and using it as a weapon for institutional financial gain. If the bishops were truly altruistic, They would risk their own properties to accommodate these illegal migrants. They don’t, they haven’t, and they never will.
There is only one way to practice altruism with complete integrity and consistency and that is to commit instant suicide by delivering yourself to a tribe of cannibals. By literally becoming a Shmoo eagerly looking for someone to eat you. Anything less is literally inconsistent hypocrisy.
The only way to be an altruist and stay alive is to cheat on it and become a hypocrite. Altruism is designed to induce unearned guilt, unearned guilt is its stock and trade. If you can make a man think he’s guilty when he’s not, make him despise the actual best within him by denigrating his self and calling it “selfish”, by inverting the actually moral, then you have psychologically paralyzed him, you have made him ready to become a Shmoo for you. Altruism turns men into Shmoos or the cynical cannibals eagerly devouring the Shmoo.
“Ayn Rand – Why Altruism is Evil”
As Someone who had been raised in the Catholic Church, I can tell you this: your definition of altruism is the best definition of “Catholic guilt” that I’ve found. I mean that as a compliment.
Nobody wants your day old day old donuts. Rather than launching humanity into a dream world of superstition and imagination, the Judeo-Christian reality is that we are sacralized beings in a very real world and live in sacred, very real bodies.
The scandalous (to the Gnostics) materialism of ‘God becoming Man’ is that we matter – here and now.
Christianity when taken seriously in its complete context leads to a theocracy of self-sacrifice for God and neighbor. What matters to serious and complete Christianity in the here and now is the seeking of Supernatural Salvation from Original Sin and the Fall of Man by renunciation, self-denial, self-sacrifice, even self-immolation if that is the price to pay to gain Eternal Life in Christ’s Kingdom after you die.
Christianity, serious Christianity, is certainly NOT about the personal pursuit of happiness on Earth and selfishly enjoying your own earned wealth. It is not about Laissez-Faire Capitalism. Joel Osteen, Reverend Ike, G.W, Bush, and John D. Rockefeller are not the serious Christians but Torquemada, St. Anthony of Egypt, Mother Teresa, Pope Francis, and Kayla Mueller are.
Same old garbage, just in another post.
Basically your Objectivism For Dummies course consists of the following:
Altruism…bad.
Jesus…..bad
Christianity…………bad
Judaism…….bad
Judeo-Christianity is Leftism……bad
Judaism and Christianity are oriental…..bad
Christianity prepared the ground for modern totalitarianism….bad
Medieval Christianity was a totalitarian system…..bad
God and magical thinking…….bad
Atheism….good
Greeks……good
Christian Dark Age….bad
Renaissance and enlightenment …..good
Greek philosophers……good
Christian philosophers…….bad
selfishness “properly defined”, rational selfishness….good
Altruism…bad.
Repeat ad inifinitum.The Big Lie in practice.
And there we have the simplistic world according to our rezidentura fraud…..THX
Illiterate, ignorant rubbish. The Christian cross & the Roman lance created Western Civilization. Christianity directed itself to the individual, individual souls and individual responsibility. Peikoff ‘s ignorance of history is truly astounding, Rand was the mirror image of the Communist Jews she excoriated. Both she & the Reds hated Christianity, both were materialists to the core. THX’s non sequiturs and other logical and historical fallacies have been made short work of by Rodney Stark, Thomas Woods, Regine Pernoud & Christopher Dawson, among others.
Sure we should feel compassion toward those who are fleeing their homeland because of violence, persecution etc. But the West will be over populated if we take in every one of these refugees. Wasn’t the UN created to put an end to the way these ‘refugees’ are treated by sending in troops to sort out the messes and bring peace to troubled nations? Western nations support the UN at great financial cost to bring peace to troubled places, not to pay for UN officials to live the high life.
The Catholic Church represents GLOBALISM, they are pushing us into the one world government and the New World order system, by bringing in and housing illegal aliens. ( WE ARE A NATION WITHOUT BORDERS NOW, A NATION WITHOUT LAWS AND SECURITY…… In Genesis 10-11 when Satan ruled the world through one man named Nimrod, Satan’s goal has been to (get the whole world together again, no matter what the cost to economies, lives, and collapse of systems, so he can rule it all.) World history bears out this pattern. It’s the record of one person after another trying to rule the world. BY UNGODLY SCHEMES. Many of the power hungry rulers who have surely subjugated nations under their feet have been energized by Satan to focus on his goal of globalism. Now for the first time in history since the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11, globalism is within man’s and Satan’s reach. This current age will climax with a monumental falling away, both doctrinally and morally. of the false church. God is allowing world events to take place and players to assume their roles for the drama to begin. Before the curtain goes up, the TRUE church with biblical principles that doesn’t human traffick, and support GLOBALISM, will rise in the air to meet the Lord at the Rapture. Sometime after the Rapture, the Antichrist will arrive on the world scene. The raging sign of the end times is surging apostasy, that is, a departure from the truth, both doctrinally and morally. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IGNORED THE GENOCIDE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE TOO BY HITLER
It’s not just the Catholic Church. Protestantism also has led and leads to the thrust towards universal Christian theocracy. Martin Luther was not fighting for freedom and liberty, he was fighting to cleanse and perfect what he saw as a corrupted theocracy. He was fighting for a perfected Catholic Church not to abolish it in the name of individual liberty.
The crucial issue is philosophical. Metaphysically the crucial issue is this natural reality we live in versus an alleged mystical, supernatural, higher and superior, reality that man must serve and sacrifice himself to because allegedly that supernatural dimension creates this inferior natural reality.
Supernature by definition is superior to the natural, the natural inferior to the alleged supernatural God that creates this inferior natural reality. Epistemologically the crucial issue is faith versus reason, the supernatural by definition is beyond our natural senses to perceive, and therefore beyond our natural reasoning minds to comprehend, “God works in mysterious ways, we see through a glass darkly here on Earth”. “You’ll just have to take it on faith”, in other words you’ll have to sacrifice your own mind and thinking and OBEY someone else, either this supernatural God or his elite representative on Earth, the priest, the rabbi, the shaman. But sacrifice yourself and mind to other, you must, because how else can you accept what is beyond your natural senses and natural reasoning mind?
This is why freedom, liberty, and the personal pursuit of happiness on Earth are SECULAR ideas and values based on this natural reality and man’s natural senses and natural reasoning mind, not faith and self-sacrifice for the supernatural.
Oh please God. Not more homework assignments. Have you ever heard the phrase “Less is More”.
It’s just endless Big Lie Pr0paganda with you. Old Joe Goebbels would be so proud.
Not exactly garnering those upvotes are you. Just as I predicted.
OK, repeat after me:
Altruism…bad.
Jesus…..bad
Christianity…………bad
Judaism…….bad
Judeo-Christianity is Leftism……bad
Judaism and Christianity are oriental…..bad
Christianity prepared the ground for modern totalitarianism….bad
Medieval Christianity was a totalitarian system…..bad
God and magical thinking…….bad
Atheism….good
Greeks……good
Christian Dark Age….bad
Renaissance and enlightenment …..good
Greek philosophers……good
Christian philosophers…….bad
selfishness “properly defined”, rational selfishness….good
Altruism…bad.
Repeat ad inifinitum.The Big Lie in practice.
How about sending them illegal aliens to their Church I am sure they would want to have them setting up their homes in their Churchyard
The Catholic Church is not considering the consequences of unlimited illegal immigration and its affect on the American people. It is obvious that financial consideration is their number one priority. I suspect they have never given one thought to all the people who have been victims of their support for illegal immigration.
Ever heard of “anything for a good cause”? Cracking a few eggs to make the omelet for the Kingdom of Christ is not that a big a deal when you’re sending those souls to an eternal after-life.
If you really, truly, seriously, believe in an Eternal Christian Utopia after you die, Original Sin, and Supernatural Salvation, then how important can this life be? The sooner you get through this veil of tears the better.
Ever heard of the Massacre at Beziers in 1209? A massacre of some 20,000 heretics? But not to worry for here is the mystical, supernatural, logic of Christianity in its complete and pure form,
“About 20 years later, Caesarius of Heisterbach relates this story about the massacre:
When they discovered, from the admissions of some of them, that there were Catholics mingled with the heretics they said to the abbot “Sir, what shall we do, for we cannot distinguish between the faithful and the heretics.” The abbot, like the others, was afraid that many, in fear of death, would pretend to be Catholics, and after their departure, would return to their heresy, and is said to have replied “Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius – Kill them all for the Lord knoweth them that are His” (2 Tim. ii. 19) and so countless number in that town were slain.[23]
While there remains doubt that the abbot said these words – also paraphrased as “Kill them all; God will know His own”, “Kill them all; God will sort his own”, or “Kill them all and let God sort them out” – there is little if any doubt that these words captured the spirit of the assault,[24] and that the Crusaders intended to slaughter the inhabitants.[25] The Crusaders allowed the routiers to rampage and kill without restraint, sparing neither women nor children, but swiftly put a stop to looting.[4]” – Wikepedia
You. Are, Absolutely. Right.
That last comment was directed to Fred A.