Our local “Catholic Charities” provides counseling in schools and social serves in the community all funded by the school district and local governments. This with a healthy overhead between 25% and as much as 40%. I know this through a friend that was a newly graduated social worker being paid a pittance of $19k per year for counseling in an elementary school, while she later found out that Catholic Charities was collecting 32% overhead. And, they gave her hell when she asked for a thirty dollar print cartridge, it cut into the gravy train. They also insisted that she limit her work in certain ways, it became clear this was in the hope that they might place another individual at the same location generating another 32% overhead.
Get use to the idea that the Catholic Church has become just another non-profit feeding off the government teat, a much more reliable revenue stream then their aging congregation.
When the Catholic Church advocates redistribution they are eyeballing a very healthy overhead on that redistribution.
In full disclosure, I grew up Catholic, I don’t otherwise have a bone to pick -though I’m discussed by the Church’s new coziness with government money.
Oh, I almost forgot. My friend working as a social worker for Catholic Charities...
It takes a few years for a social worker to gain a license and in these years there are certain periodic reviews that must take place with the employer. It’s a formality really, as little as a few meetings a year with some brief paperwork. Maybe three hours per year. The administration at Catholic Charities couldn’t be bothered to do this. Was it because they weren’t collecting enough in overhead or was it because a social worker once licensed might move on? Good question.
Does not this transference of taxpayer dollars make all of US Catholic by proxy? Now if only those Catholic Bishops can get their Catholic Boner to pass amnesty then the empty American Catholic pews can begin to be filled again? It is like Communism use up people and then need to find a new source of bodies to fund the racket. Yes, I am tired of being used by a religious organization for their political purposes. And I would feel the same way and did when Billy Graham was out there shouting praise all over the pervert Clintons.
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