Catholic Church is breaking up with the U.S. government

[struggle4progress]

Catholic refugee programs in the U.S. have been reeling since President Donald Trump froze federal funding after returning to office
Published: April 7, 2025, 12:25 p.m. MDT

U.S. Catholic leaders are ending their church’s 50-year partnership with the federal government and seeking new ways to help refugees.

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, announced the change in a press release and Washington Post column on Monday, arguing that the Trump administration forced his denomination’s hand.

“The bishops’ decision came after the federal government suspended our cooperative agreements to resettle refugees. The drastic reduction of these programs forced us to reconsider the best way to serve the needs of our brothers and sisters seeking safe harbor from violence and persecution,” he wrote for The Washington Post ...

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2025/04/07/catholic-church-ending-refugee-partnership-trump-administration/

[Sky Jewels]

1. Catholic Church: "Hey, WE'RE supposed to be number one at treating women like shit!"

A pox on both the RCC and Trumpco.

Yeah, yeah, I know some of these Catholic groups do good work for immigrants, but the church/Vatican are putrid grifting rings and Wimmen Haterz clubs resting on moronic mythology made up by patriarchal goatherding societies. These organizations could just help people without the hocus-pocus of magical nonsense like Catholicism and other dumbass male-centric religions where the only important characters ("God," "Allah" "Jesus" "Mohammad" "Abraham" "Moses" "Noah" etc.) are penis-havers.

[Permanut]

2. Trump's lack of charity has always been obvious..

Maybe Broglio and other US Catholic leaders could have informed their parishioners of that fact before 59% of them voted for him

[wcmagumba]

3. I call BS...temporary schism maybe but Opus Dei will hop right back to the government teat...my prediction...