As many of you know, we’ve written a number of times how our State Department and USAID drove huge numbers of illegal crossings using vast sums of taxpayer money. We’re grateful to see this issue getting the broader attention that it truly deserves. Regardless of what you think about him, Elon is helping to raise our national consciousness on a number of vital matters—including the use of NGOs to fund the flow of illegals.
One of the questions we’ve repeatedly been asked during this process is did the Catholic Church know what NGOs like Catholic Charities of America were doing? Was the Catholic Church part of the illegal immigration problem, actively soliciting government funds or were these sub-organizations operating all on their own—independent grifters operating outside the Church’s sphere in an attempt to make money.
Our historical response to these questions has been that at a minimum the Church certainly had active knowledge of these activities – and documents we’ve found would strongly indicate the Church had a very real measure of oversight. Most of these donations went to Catholic Charities directly affiliated with regional dioceses—making it improbable that the Church wasn’t overtly aware.
Unfortunately, we now have what appears to be a fairly definitive answer to this question. As you’ll see, it was one that left us at a loss for words. But first some important context and background.
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