Catholic charities promote government dependency programs even more so than in the past as Bush II made it the law that faith based charities could be eligible to receive government grants and support.
Catholic charities are quick to jump on republicans like Romney who whispered an idea that perhaps people would need to show some work seek effort to qualify for EBT food stamps.
Catholics are also long established in inner cities where handouts are long entrenched.
I am for social safety nets as a trampoline but not as a hammock. Catholics don’t think that far. They think day by day. Whatever works ***today*** is what they stand behind. To them it doesn’t matter how today affects tomorrow.
Catholic charities tend to be run and heavily influenced by nuns.
And for whatever reason, anyone who is a nun today appears to be out on the far-left fringes of Catholic thought.
(my mom has floated a theory that a lifetime of celibacy is actually quite unhealthy for the female brain)