[markomalley]

We can rail against Obama and the government with some justification, but that won’t make any difference at all, at all, to a Syrian child with no home, no food, no school, no church. We can, each one of us however, do something however small about that!

This is the other disgusting part to me (didn't want to let my Øbama rant get derailed)

I don't know about Eastern churches, but I know in the Latin churches I've gone to in the past year, I can count on one hand the time that the plight of our brethren have been the subject of a homily. Even in the "prayers of the faithful"...this subject is very, very, very rarely broached. The Holy Father, to his credit, has brought up his concerns about persecuted Christians, but in our local dioceses? Hardly.

(I have, over the past year or so, been spending most of my time and my treasure with the Commissariat of the Holy Land...so I know that the bulk of my donations are going to the right place, but this is a privilege I have living so close to DC and is not so readily available to other who are not that close to here)

I agree that we should devote what resources we can to providing relief, but I, honestly, outside of the Commissariat, do not know which Catholic organization to support? I frankly don't trust the scandal-laden CRS, particularly in light of the clear guidance provided by Benedict XVI.

[Kolokotronis]

“I don’t know about Eastern churches, but I know in the Latin churches I’ve gone to in the past year, I can count on one hand the time that the plight of our brethren have been the subject of a homily.”

Almost every Sunday we hear something about what is going on. Of course, it’s happening to our people. People I go to Liturgy with have had family members killed by the ravening wolves of Mohammedanism. I’m pretty sure the Latins up here are hearing about it too.