Love of Mammon is ever the besetting sin of the clergy. Replacing revenue lost from alienating the people in the pews with Caesar’s gold by aiding human trafficking ?
Getting in Bed With Caesar is Always a Bad Idea
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Knew something was up, the USCCB has been quiet on deportations. As quiet as when Biden supported infanticide and called himself a good catholic.
Owned by one administration means owned by the next, even if it’s polar opposite.
I hope that the USCCB’s financial back is broken in two, and that bishops guilty of human trafficking are arrested and thrown in jail for the remainder of their miserable and worthless lives.
The Church in America would benefit if the Conference were dissolved. I suspect the protestant congregations and eastern churches would benefit if the National Council of Churches were dissolved. If federal legislation and regulation threatens the capacity of religious bodies to fulfill their institutional missions, lay watchdogs like Austin Ruse’s outfit can send out alerts and the bishops can begin working on their local congressmen and working to secure the co-operation of their local counterparts in the protestant bodies and the eastern churches.
One thing we know is that the USCCB will never be dissolved, every county needs to have an entity for its bishops. However, there is a great need to reorient the purpose of the USCCB and have it truly serve the everyday Catholic and clergy. One thing that gets swept under the rug is that every survey shows there is a lack of trust between priests and bishops, as well as the laity and bishops. Reestablishing trust should be high on the agenda, and taking less money also there. Why do all the projects of the USCCB cost so much and they do nothing? I have not noticed any Eucharistic Revival going on in the USA despite tens of millions of dollars poured into it. Now with this anti-TLM thing some of the bishops have, they are moving further from the faithful than ever before. Bottom line problem: they refuse to listen to the faithful, but cater to social media to be liked. USCCB, grow up and teach the faith.
The radtrads among us would find some way to twist this into an excuse for a monarchy.
Even if it is an idea crafted by Masons, there is some merit to churches sticking to teaching the faith and not involving themselves where they have no competence.
I’ve had to endure 8 weekends of being pulpit shamed to donate to the Bishops Annual Appeal. I just don’t feel the love. Now that the govt isn’t their focus, they now have a need for my wallet.
USCCB needs to go. We don’t need a national body of bishops. If we need some country level coordination, a meeting of the several archbishops could be arranged ad hoc. Just more offices to suck up money and effort needed elsewhere – badly.
Any wrongdoing should be addressed justly, swiftly and unsparingly.
PS – autocorrect wanted me to type “succubus” for USCCB, but then when I tried it a second time denied it had made the suggestion. Interesting …
Timothy Broglio is the president of the USCCB and the Archbishop of the Armed Services.. He is a good man and an orthodox priest.
I agree about Abp. Broglio. He’s a mensch, by all appearances. But I still wish there were no organization like the USCCB for him to serve as President.
every county needs to have an entity for its bishops.
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Why?
“Why?”
The Council™ decided in Christus Dominus that the formation of episcopal conferences would be “supremely fitting” … You know, to promote the “common good” … I don’t believe they’re mandatory, but they’re mentioned in the Code of Canon Law, so maybe they are?
Art:
Historically most countries had a primatial see (in our case Baltimore), to give both pope and king a local point man, and to have someone who could depose errant bishops. Now we have nuncios, so that notion is no longer necessary. From the mere ecclesiastical standpoint, it’s best to have every bishop answer directly to Rome.
Oh dear. That’s some bad decision making.
Granted that most of the illlegal immigrants are Catholic / Christian, I’m suspecting this could go a few ways: a) this is just an empty threat that ends up going nowhere b) the investigation is conducted and lay employees of these NGO’s will be thrown under the bus. C) the ideal situation is that these NGO’s are forced to pay back government money given to fund the activities which assisted illegal immigrants. This won’t happen.
But in all honesty, these people they were helping could have lied about their status. It seems like a big mess where it will be difficult to determine the truth and which the USCCB will use their social justice reasoning to justify this.
By the way, my kids se the USCCB.org website for religion assessments at school for CCC and other Bible information. It’s very good.
I know Joshua Phillips reported on the Darian Gap and how the NGOs had binders to guide people in scamming the US system. The UN helped too
Where are the kids?
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I wonder if government money is warping the conduct of the US Church hierarchy? The paymaster being the true master. The church tax has pretty much destroyed the German Church.