Posted on 08/22/2012 7:11:37 AM PDT by IbJensen
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Catholic Relief Services responds to criticisms over its partnerships with pro-abortion anti-poverty groups, LifeSiteNews has discovered that the aid organization also has a history of hiring employees with strong ties to pro-abortion and pro-contraception organizations.
One CRS employee lists the pro-abortion Pro-Choice Resources and Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies as former employers on her LinkedIn resume, while another was hired by the Catholic aid organization directly from the pro-abortion Population Services International.
Former CRS employee Charisse Glassman was convicted of assault after driving her car into a crowd of March for Life participants.
Another former employee was convicted of assault last fall after ramming her car into a crowd at the DC March for Life in January 2011 as the pro-lifers traversed a crosswalk.
The latter employee, Charisse Espy Glassman, was a Democrat candidate for the DC school board as well as a legislative assistant with CRS-Haiti. Despite assault charges, she remained at CRS until August 4th, 2011. In a statement on Facebook responding to queries, CRS said they had “operated on the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty.” A victim of the assault, who suffered two herniated disks, reported that Glassman had seemed to laugh as she drove into the crowd.
CRS employee Dr. Amy Ellis joined the Catholic organization in October 2011 after working three years at Population Services International, a major advocate of population control through abortion and contraception.
Ellis, CRS’ Regional Technical Advisor for Health & HIV in Asia, represented PSI even after she had started working for CRS, giving a presentation on “global contraceptive needs” at the International Conference on Family Planning in Senegal from Nov 29 – Dec 2, 2011.
In May 2012, Ellis represented CRS at the Women Deliver conference in Bangladesh, a regular gathering of pro-abortion activists focused on achieving “universal access to reproductive health.” The session she joined included a focus on “revitaliz[ing] family planning.”
Ellis also worked at the Population Council, another pro-abortion population control organization, from 2001-2002.
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Daphyne Williams, who has worked for CRS since 2008 and currently serves as the East Africa Regional Technical Advisor, interned at the Minneapolis-based pro-abortion group Pro-Choice Resources in 2001-2002, according to her LinkedIn page. The group is dedicated to expanding abortion access through programs such as the Hersey Abortion Assistance Fund, which provides “no-interest loans” and “grants” to help poor women pay for abortions.
From 2003-2004 Williams worked at the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center, which offers “the full range of reproductive health services including contraception.” And from 2004-2005 she worked in STD prevention at the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies, a national public health organization that advocates for abortion access and links to leading pro-abortion and pro-homosexual groups.
Dr. Pun Sok, CRS’ Health and HIV/AIDS Program Manager in Cambodia, joined the Catholic relief organization in 2008 after years working at CARE. A longtime partner and grant recipient of CRS, CARE has opposed restrictions on abortion and partnered with Marie Stopes International as well as promoted contraceptive initiatives in the Third World.
In 2011, Sok represented CRS on the steering committee of MediCam, an organizing body for Cambodian health NGOs that promotes contraception and abortion. He also joined a discussion of MediCam’s 2011 Position Paper as a member of the steering committee. The paper advocated expanded access to abortion and abortifacient contraception.
Notably, CRS’ Board of Directors includes Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association, who famously defied the U.S. Bishops in 2010 when she endorsed Obama’s health care plan despite the bishops’ judgment that the plan included funding for abortion.
CRS communications director John Rivera did not respond to questions on the organization’s hiring practices by press time. However, on their website CRS explains that it “considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, national origin, religious beliefs, gender, age, marital status or physical or mental disability.”
The old Roman Catholic Church religion is still here. There is no communion whatsoever with the Novus Ordo. Those RCC members still practice their religion that was guaranteed in perpetuity by Pope St. Pius X.
What emerges from the Vatican and from groups like the CRS has nothing to do with the Church Jesus Christ left behind to carry on until His Second Coming.
How lucky can the Democrat Party get? They've got muslims included in their program and phony catholics who think abortion and homosexual marriage is a-Okay!
This is purely anecdotal, but:
If Obama was destined to win re-election (as we are being told), I’m not sure that Liberals would feel the need to ram us with their cars.
Just sayin’
Killing defenseless babies doesn't phase them - what's a few adults?
Ping to article and post #1.
So were there two incidents of people being rammed by cars? Did both women have the same name? This is unclear to me. I guess we can't count on the media to to their jobs and publicize this stuff.
Not ‘employee’: Infiltrator and spy.........
Silly me for having failed to investigate them before executing my will!
And BTW....if I *do* wind up amending my will,thereby cutting them out completely (which seems quite likely at this time) I’m gonna call them after I’ve done it telling them exactly what I’ve done,why I did it and approximately how much it’s cost them.As a matter of fact I think I recall my brother having said that CRS is in *his* will as well.And he’s a far better Catholic than am I.Looks like a phone call to him might be in order.
Simple. You have Catholics and then you have the socialist/Marxist Catholics smoking up the Church as instruments of you-know-who, known to have penetrated the Church since the beginning.
Is this a surprise, that we would find the evil one angling for power where God is present fully - body, blood, soul and divinity, in his Church?
she was just dishin out some ‘social justice’.
You might want to drop them a note, saying you're cheerfully giving to a truly Catholic charity... one where they care for the needy in Christ's Name, and respect and observe the doctrines of the Catholic faith.
You may have your favorites, but I'm listing my favorites in case you want to consider them:
Tepeyac Family Center
11135 Lee Highway
Fairfax, VA 22030-5004
http://www.tepeyacfamilycenter.com
Martha & Mary Ministries
2213 NE Tenth Ave.
Portland, OR 97212
http://www.marthamaryministries.org/index.html
Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia
801 Dominican Drive
Nashville, TN 37228-1909
http://nashvilledominican.org/Home
It's equally important --- in my opinion --- to starve the bad 'uns, and to feed the good 'uns.
Add CMMB (Catholic Medical Mission Board). I worked with them immediately after the quake in Haiti. They have been doing tremendous work for decades.
I won't be giving a dime to them or taking up their collections in my parishes until this scandal is resolved, if it ever is- so sad.
Granting that such frauds as "Catholic" Relief Services ought to be Ground Zero in a nuclear attack, the rest of your post has little to do with the subject at hand.
I am no fan of Vatican II, nor of the Novus Ordo Mass. I now attend Tridentine Masses (as I did as an altar boy all too many years ago) and only Tridentine Masses at an Oratory run by the all-Tridentine (but, unlike SSPX) absolutely in communion with Benedict XVI and Rockford Bishop Malloy).
All that having been said, you seem to be suggesting sympathy for that sad little bunch of ecclesiastical revolutionaries, founded by the dead and excommunicated Marcel LeFebvre, and now run by Fellay, Williamson, de Mallerais and de Gallarata.
The old Roman Catholic Church religion is indeed still here and it is headquartered in the Vatican as it has been since the end of the "Babylonian Captivity" when the Church was headquartered in Avignon, France, from 1309 to 1376. Its head is Pope Benedict XVI (successor of St. Peter) and not Fellay, an unlawfully (though validly) consecrated bishop who has been suspended by the Vatican, along with the other SSPX bishops, from any functions reflecting his receipt of Holy Orders. No one died and left Fellay pope (not even excommunicated Marcel LeFebvre).
The SSPX leaders actually presume to "negotiate" their return to the Church but, only on their own terms, as though they were in charge of ANYTHING. No SSPX priest or bishop has faculties to hear confessions or to bear Church witness to marriages. The SSPX was declared schismatic by John Paul II and he excommunicated all of their bishops. Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI (then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) and Bernardin Cardinal Gantin (then prefect of the Congregation for Bishops) all participated fully and quite voluntarily in the actions against the SSPX. Pope Benedict XVI has seen fit (apparently as a gratuitous extension of mercy to Fellay, Williamson, de Mallerais and de Gallarata) to lift the excommunications of those four rebellious bishops and to even allow discussions between the four and Vatican officials as to the potential reconciliation of SSPX with the actual Church. Naturally, in the spirit of their late excommunicated founder LeFebvre, they resist any and all overtures that do not amount to a complete capitulation by the Vatican.
Personally, I would rather see them excommunicated firmly and finally unless they comply on Vatican terms within a fixed time frame. The Church has wasted entirely too much time on SSPX and it is time to move on.
BTW, when you say that the Catholic "religion that was guaranteed in perpetuity by Pope St. Pius X," are you actually referencing the papal bull Quo Primum of Pope St. Pius V which guaranteed the Tridentine missal as the exclusive missal of the Church in perpetuity??? If so, since that was not a matter of doctrine or dogma, don't you think Pope St. Pius V was acting ultra vires (beyond even papal authority) on a matter of prudential judgment if he purported to excommunicate even future popes who might change his missal in any way??? In which case, at the very least, popes Sixtus V, Clement VII, Urban VIII and Paul VI would have been disciplined. Or, for example, was the Novus Ordo missal promulgated by Paul VI shortly after Vatican II, a valid exercise of his papacy even if that exercise got dead excommunicated Marcel's nose (and sense of taste) out of joint.
After 40+ years at most Catholic Churches in the world of Novus Ordo Masses, would you ban the Novus Ordo summarily when that would dislocate the psychology of Catholics in the pew today as much as the Catholics in the pews in the 1960s were dislocated by the relentlessness of the Novus Ordo being imposed everywhere?
You have said much about the Novus Ordo new religion. You are absolutely correct when you attribute the perpetuity of the Tridentine Mass to Pope St. Pius V. Pope Pius X merely reaffirmed that papal bull.
The SSPX have been embarrassingly beseeching of Rome on bended knees to accept them. The Society should have kept quiet and gone on their chosen path. There would be much more respect for the Society.
I believe that ‘modernists’ were behind the radical changes that Vatican II caused and that an entirely new religion was created that made it easy for hypocrites to claim Catholicism when they believed very little in Christ’s Church He left behind until the Second Coming.
Sedevacantism makes more sense at this point in the miasma that passes for Catholicism today.
Thanks IbJensen.
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