Whammo!! "Catholic" Relief Services Cut Off

 Gee.  This is really .........sad???

Catholic Relief Services is bracing for massive cuts — as much as 50% this year — because of draconian reductions in U.S. foreign assistance ordered by the Trump administration, according to an internal email from the chief executive of the international relief organization. 

CRS is the top recipient of funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development, known as USAID, which the Trump administration has targeted with a spending freeze, office closure and extensive staff cuts this week....

You probably have received your Bishop's begging letter for your annual Diocesan fund-raiser.

Did your Bishop send along a line-by-line exposition of how he spent every.  single.  penny.  last year?

There's a reason for that. 

The Usual Suspects have the Usual Half-Truths.

....The cuts will be devastating, said Stephen Colecchi, director of the Office of International Justice and Peace for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2004 to 2018.

"To target this tiny portion of the federal budget in such a haphazard and irresponsible way is going to cost people's lives and livelihoods," Colecchi said. "It is not a thoughtful or humane way to go about treating programs that help the poorest of the poor all over the world."....

No doubt Colecchi knew nothing.........NOTHING..........about USAID's treachery against Trump and--frankly--against the USA.  And no doubt that CRS was clean as the wind-driven snow.  Uh-huh.  Swearsies.

That's why this line is in the news report:

 ...Among the programs and services provided by CRS: water and sanitation, education, agriculture, health, microfinancing, climate change resilience, as well as justice and peace-building programs in addition to emergency and disaster assistance....

Oh.

There's a saying about lying down with dogs and getting up with fleas.  The Bishops will be lucky if that's all they got.