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To: MamaB; NYer
Here's how it happens, MamaB. (I don't have time to get the links and sources right now, but if you google the keywords, "Catholic Relief Services," contraception, it should take you to the straight stuff in a couple of seconds.)

Here's the basics: as most American Catholics DON'T know, some 70% of CRS money comes, not from Catholics, but from the USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development), which is majorly into contraception, sterilization and abortion. Plus, CRS, like most international relief agencies, subcontracts, outsources, and practices flow-through funding. That means they are all intertangled with each other, which means huge overlaps of money, leadership, personnel, supplies,and programs.

This has been going on for decades. Some CRS programs are "clean," but many of them are contaminated with objectively evil junk like contraception, and very few of them actually have an identifiably Catholic focus which features spreading the Gospel and evangelizing nations.

The CRS needs to be evangelized, itself.

Pope Francis is aware of some of these problems, but the whole thing is so tangled up (like I said, overlapping personnel, flow-through funding, subcontracting) that I don't know how he's going to deal with it without bringing the whole thing crashing down.

That may be what needs to happen. Don't try to untangle 10,000 knots. Just cut the whole thing off --- slash it, dump it --- let USAID run it in their own name, since they substantially run it already --- and start over.

Pray or Pope Francis.

9 posted on 07/25/2013 4:09:39 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o; MamaB

And where are the bishops in all of this?


13 posted on 07/26/2013 5:24:49 AM PDT by piusv
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