Rachel Mastorgiacomo was ritually raped by then-Fr. Jacob Bertrand, who pleaded guilty to and was convicted of such a heinous act. Wiesław Walawender came from Poland to study for the priesthood here – he was abused in three different dioceses and witnessed a six-year-old with semen all over his face after a sexually abusive encounter with a priest. The Catholic Church served them horribly. Cardinal Robert McElroy, soon to be archbishop of Washington, D.C., covered up for Bertrand. Bishops and seminary personnel disbelieved and punished Walawender when he reported his abusers, among them Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
People who know their stories or the hundreds and thousands of similar ones have long thought it extremely problematic that the U.S. government, through the State Department and Health and Human Services (HHS), has given over a billion dollars to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its affiliates to settle refugees and immigrants. The Church has a scandalous history of placing predator priests among migrants and the handicapped and of covering up abuse that has occurred among them.
The investigations of the use of U.S. government funds by DOGE has shown that staggering amounts of money have been used for trivial purposes and worse, for nefarious ones. Why would the government have entrusted refugees and immigrants to the USCCB with its appalling track record? Was it because the USCCB was happy to receive such funds and look the other way in respect to trafficking of children and women? Was the USCCB happy to become a wing of the Democratic Party to collect huge sums of money? What did they do with the money?
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