We shall find out more as the public discussion on this continues. This also raises a question, just what is the Archbishop’s definition of “Catholic”? I believe it was posted in MT a couple of week ago and it seemed pretty limited. Charity management should transcend religious identity. Catholic Charities’ mission is to all, and if a person of a different religion can do the job better and provide superior charity outreach, then they should seriously be considered for the job.
To the person receiving the warm meal, heating aid, free or reduced counciling, warm bed, loving adoption, the politics at the top are non-existent. They key is to get as many services to as many in need as you can.
Laudatur Iesus Christus.
Charity is a part of the liturgy of the Church*. It is not as though God has all of these needy people on His hands and needs them fed. Rather, God is love; charity is an integral way in which we participate in the expression of God’s love, the Son’s love for the Father. This is not a matter of mere logistics but of authentic love, within the structure of the Sacraments.
Pope Benedict put it this way, in part:
This can only take place on the basis of an intimate encounter with God, an encounter which has become a communion of will, even affecting my feelings. Then I learn to look on this other person not simply with my eyes and my feelings, but from the perspective of Jesus Christ. His friend is my friend. Going beyond exterior appearances, I perceive in others an interior desire for a sign of love, of concern. This I can offer them not only through the organizations intended for such purposes, accepting it perhaps as a political necessity. Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave. Here we see the necessary interplay between love of God and love of neighbour which the
First Letter of John speaks of with such insistence. (Benedict XVI,
Deus Caritas Est, (2005) no. 18.)
It is important for the Church to bring others into these activities, but it cannot be an “equal opportunity” activity, because it is integral to the identity of the Church and requires the authentic Catholic Faith, if it is to have effect in eternity.
The awareness of this responsibility has had a constitutive relevance in the Church from the beginning . . . (Ibid, at 20.)
Charity is salvific, not because it feeds the poor and prolongs their physical life, but because it is an encounter with others which is an opportunity for authentic love, the love of Christ for His God and Father.
Caritas Christi nobiscum.
John Hiner
*The word “liturgy” is usually given a more restrictive meaning, but this is not its only or even its most fundamental meaning in the Church: “In the New Testament the word “liturgy” refers not only to the celebration of divine worship but also to the proclamation of the Gospel and to
active charity. . .” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1070 (emphasis added).) Further, charity is linked to the offering made in the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass, represented by our offering of the wine, “the fruit of the vine.”
You haven’t trademarked it have you, because I think I will pass that label along to my pastor? I’m pretty sure he will use it in his homilies. 
