Catholics contributing to the scandal-plagued Catholic Relief Services (CRS) can cut-out the middle man by donating condoms in their Rice Bowls this year.
The U.S. bishops are highlighting what they describe as the “very urgent significance” of this year’s annual Catholic Relief Services (CRS) collection due to the loss earlier this year of federal aid for refugees and migrants.
“Each year the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) comforts and assists people worldwide who suffer from war, natural disasters, violent persecution, or extreme poverty,” the bishops said in a Monday statement.
“That work is possible because of contributions to the Catholic Relief Services Collection,” they said.
Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg, the chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on National Collections, noted that the U.S. government earlier this year “abruptly suspended funding for its refugee resettlement program and then terminated cooperative agreements for such work, impacting thousands of refugees that the government has placed in charge of the USCCB for resettlement assistance.”
CRS has been scrambling for funding since the Trump administration in January ordered major cuts to foreign aid and refugee programs. The USCCB previously urged Catholics to take action by asking members of Congress to halt the cuts.
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