Freedom’s Trumpet

This is old news, somewhat, but now is as good a time as ever to show government abuse.

Many of you gleefully drop your donations in the Catholic Charities coffers when asked by your parish to do so. We had a big collection recently and they even brought in a nice gentleman to inform us of their activities in the area. They didn’t mention the people who fell through the cracks because they didn’t meet government quotas, but they were very proud of the people they helped with the combined effort of the gifts of the faithful combined with the government assistance received through programs for the poor. Of course, they never mentioned the latter, but they were very thankful for the money donated through the parishes, since this still makes up 40-50% of their funding.

So what’s the deal with the government funding? Well, the government funds charities in order to control them. That’s what happened to Catholic Charities in San Francisco, Massachusetts and now in Washington DC.

The following video shows how Catholic Charities is caught in a difficult position where they have to shut off services because the government is now using the money that they donated as a weapon against Catholic principles.

In the video you can see the “righteous indignation” of the councilman who reminds the grossly overpaid head of Catholic Charities for Washington DC that he was the one, a gay self-righteous councilman, who hooked Catholic Charities on government funding like a drug dealer gives away free samples to hook kids on crack and heroin. Now, to be fair, he doesn’t word it that way. He positions himself as the good guy, not a sly fox with the agenda of trying to force Catholic Charities to behave immorally. Don’t forget to draw an image of Mr Catania with wings and a halo and your local bishop with horns, a tail and a pitch fork.

This is how government attacks religion and this is how they plan to attack the Catholic Church. It’s important to give to charitable organizations, but what do we do when a charity finds itself under the thumb of an evil such as this? Is the charity is still serving Jesus and fulfilling the Great Commission to go out and spread the Gospel?

For more I recommend reading THIS ARTICLE posted by Fr John Malloy.