Volunteering at a Shriner's Hospital for Children

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What is the opinion of Catholic’s s volunteering at Shriner Hospital for Children? They are doing a big advertising campaign on TV for donations to continue their work with disabled children. What are thoughts on making donations to this good work?
 
Well, you don’t have to become a Shriner to do it do you? Then go for it. My little sister has had all her spine surgeries from Shriners.
 
If you have to ask the question, then maybe you should go somewhere else.
We should never not help someone because of their faith affiliation or lack of.
Jesus didn’t do this, and the Apostles ministered to everyone.
Give with your heart.
 
I don’t see a problem with that at all. Shriners aren’t Catholic, but that doesn’t mean they don’t do good work.

Giving to the Salvation Army is fine too.
 
Someone told me the other day that The Salvation Army supports Planned Parenthood.
I don’t know where she got the information. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
 
Like a game of telephone, the story gets changed just a bit here and there. The Salvation Army is a denomination. As a denomination, they have sets of doctrines or beliefs.

The official belief statement of the Salvation Army lines up with most conservative Christian denominations, and they embrace the same “loopholes” as the Official Platform of the Republican Party.

"The Salvation Army believes that termination can occur only when

Carrying the pregnancy further seriously threatens the life of the mother; or
Reliable diagnostic procedures have identified a foetal abnormality considered incompatible with survival for more than a very brief post natal period.

In addition, rape and incest are brutal acts of dominance violating women physically and emotionally. This situation represents a special case for the consideration of termination as the violation may be compounded by the continuation of the pregnancy.

http://www1.salvationarmy.org/IHQ/w...FE3C992C78838853802577DF0071D796?openDocument
 
Shriners are Masons. The Shriner’s Hospitals are outreach arms of the Masonic Lodge.

You can search these forums to find out the stand of the Church WRT the Masonic Lodge.

The degree of cooperation with evil would be best discussed with your pastor.
 
TheLittleLady said:
The degree of cooperation with evil would be best discussed with your pastor.
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Not sure I would put Shriner’s Hospital on the list of evil things.
Would you refuse medical care from a physician if you found he belonged to a Blue Lodge?
 
refusing nessecary medical care and vountarily giving one’s time to an organization the Church disagrees with are very much different.
 
It would depend on the situation.

That is why these sorts of questions are best left to pastor who knows your circumstance, your public profile in the community, etc.
 
No one is required to be a Shriner in order to donate to the hospital.
Prove to me where the Church disagrees with the work being done at Shriner’s hospital.
 
Do you ask your priest to approve every charity that you may consider donating to?
 
That is not what I said.

Volunteering with the Masons via their Shriner’s Hospitals is cooperation with evil. It may be very remote, that depends on the person and their position in the community.

If I am the president of the Parish Council and a City Mayor who is well known, my pastor may feel it would be a bad example for me to be chairing the funding for the new building wing of the Shriner’s Hospital.

On the other hand, if I am simply a Joe Parishioner who wants to volunteer to sweep floors on weekends, whole other wheel of cheese.
 
I’d like to feel I have a well formed conscience and can depend on it, I attempt to thoroughly research any charity. If I have a question, I most definitely speak to a priest.
 
TheLittleLady said:
Volunteering with the Masons via their Shriner’s Hospitals is cooperation with evil. It may be very remote, that depends on the person and their position in the community.
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Explain how your “position in the community” matters when dealing with evil.

The Masons/Shriner’s are not evil. Try to understand, the Shriner’s hospital is renowned for the excellent care it provides to those that can not afford it. Nothing evil about it.
 
TheLittleLady said:
Shriners are Masons. The Shriner’s Hospitals are outreach arms of the Masonic Lodge.

You can search these forums to find out the stand of the Church WRT the Masonic Lodge.

The degree of cooperation with evil would be best discussed with your pastor.
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I agree with this. Regardless of how cute the little boy in the wheelchair is, I would still not donate. Shriner’s Hospital is not merely associated with masonry, in the way that the Girl Scouts might be associated with Planned Parenthood (Not saying GS are or are not associated with PP. I’m just making a point). Shriner’s is directly owned and operated by the Masonic group, Shriners International. As we know, one of the primary objectives of Freemasonry is the destruction of the Catholic Church and anyone of the faithful who becomes a Freemason incurs automatic excommunication.

Now, one does not necessarily become a Freemason when they donate to a children’s hospital. But when said children’s hospital is fully owned and operated by an organization which is admittedly antithetical to the Catholic faith, it begs the question… Why would you ever want to support such an organization?

Like, @TheLittleLady said: Discuss it with your parish priest. But if you ask me? I’d stay far away from it. Donate to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital instead.
 
FaithfulKnight said:
The Masons/Shriner’s are not evil. Try to understand, the Shriner’s hospital is renowned for the excellent care it provides to those that can not afford it. Nothing evil about it.
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Yes, Masons are evil. They’re totally opposed to the Catholic Church and have for centuries sought it’s destruction. The Catholic Church is Christ’s Pilgrim Church on Earth and steward of God’s people. When someone wants to destroy that Church, it’s the very definition of evil.
 
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