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4GBradley
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"FLEECED AGAIN"
As if the Catholics in the United States of America haven’t been fleeced enough (I guess that word is appropriate for “sheep”) and unknowingly supported groups through Church collections in the US that help people invade our country through Latin America, here is another one that needs close scrutiny.
While rushing to Church this morning, I was running around trying to find my weekly envelope. We now receive 2 months worth of offering envelopes in the mail to save on cost or something.
Once I discovered the envelopes, I pulled them out of the main envelope looking for today’s collection when I discovered one I missed from last week. It was entitled, “Collection for the Church in Latin America”.
With a population of less than 8 1/2 % of the world’s population, Latin America seems to get the majority of the funds from the Catholic Church whenever the plate is passed. I, being an American Catholic, am tired of sponsoring these people who have been walking into the US and taking anything they can get their hands on and making Americans feel guilty about their overpopulated, drug smuggling, and money laundering countries.
I have constantly shown that the typical Latin American country is, though not perfect, far from impoverished as you might think. Those funds could be better spent in helping the American poor who live on the streets of the US and is OUR RESPONCIBILITY or sent to Africa, a continent of tremendous poverty.
In the download of “Collection for the Church in Latin America” 2007 Annual Report, on booklet page 30, under Mexico, the Catholic Population is listed as 122,211,000. That is more than the actual population of Mexico which is around 110 million to date. Even the over estimates of the Catholic population in Mexico as being 85% of its total is ridiculous when you consider the low Church attendance in those neighborhoods in the US.
In just flipping through some of the pages, I have either found convenient misprints or down right lies.
Here it is:
usccb.org/latinamerica/
or
usccb.org/latinamerica/2009/pdf_files/LAC%20AR.pdf
Here is a page of projects to explain where the money went but it is in Spanish. I wonder why there is no translation into English. The collection envelope was in English!
usccb.org/latinamerica/Projects_List_November2008.pdf
I have yet to sit down and read this mess cover to cover, but I suggest that all Americans hold their Church accountable for these violations of trust. I would think that enough Latin Americans have been caught using the Catholic Church on both sides of the border, for other than religious purposes that a full investigation is in order.
As if the Catholics in the United States of America haven’t been fleeced enough (I guess that word is appropriate for “sheep”) and unknowingly supported groups through Church collections in the US that help people invade our country through Latin America, here is another one that needs close scrutiny.
While rushing to Church this morning, I was running around trying to find my weekly envelope. We now receive 2 months worth of offering envelopes in the mail to save on cost or something.
Once I discovered the envelopes, I pulled them out of the main envelope looking for today’s collection when I discovered one I missed from last week. It was entitled, “Collection for the Church in Latin America”.
With a population of less than 8 1/2 % of the world’s population, Latin America seems to get the majority of the funds from the Catholic Church whenever the plate is passed. I, being an American Catholic, am tired of sponsoring these people who have been walking into the US and taking anything they can get their hands on and making Americans feel guilty about their overpopulated, drug smuggling, and money laundering countries.
I have constantly shown that the typical Latin American country is, though not perfect, far from impoverished as you might think. Those funds could be better spent in helping the American poor who live on the streets of the US and is OUR RESPONCIBILITY or sent to Africa, a continent of tremendous poverty.
In the download of “Collection for the Church in Latin America” 2007 Annual Report, on booklet page 30, under Mexico, the Catholic Population is listed as 122,211,000. That is more than the actual population of Mexico which is around 110 million to date. Even the over estimates of the Catholic population in Mexico as being 85% of its total is ridiculous when you consider the low Church attendance in those neighborhoods in the US.
In just flipping through some of the pages, I have either found convenient misprints or down right lies.
Here it is:
usccb.org/latinamerica/
or
usccb.org/latinamerica/2009/pdf_files/LAC%20AR.pdf
Here is a page of projects to explain where the money went but it is in Spanish. I wonder why there is no translation into English. The collection envelope was in English!
usccb.org/latinamerica/Projects_List_November2008.pdf
I have yet to sit down and read this mess cover to cover, but I suggest that all Americans hold their Church accountable for these violations of trust. I would think that enough Latin Americans have been caught using the Catholic Church on both sides of the border, for other than religious purposes that a full investigation is in order.
