Posted on 07/26/2015 8:48:51 AM PDT by Diago
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
This one is hard to wrap your mind around, Save Jerseyans.
The obvious takeaway will be “is there anyone, or anything, left that’s worthy of our trust?”
Background: “Six Camden-based charities will receive funds through the Francis Fund, a short-term fund in honor of the papal visit” ahead of Pope Francis’s much-celebrated World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia this fall. It’s apparently a project of the event’s affiliated Hunger and Homelessness Committee; Sister Mary Scullion, a Sister of Mercy, chairs the committee, and Archbishop Charles J. Chaput provides a welcome message on the site.
New Jersey political watchers’ first warning should’ve been that Camden’s Dana Redd is also on the committee…
The Fund’s official page describes its mission as follows: “The Francis Fund represents a variety of faith and non-denominational organizations serving the region’s most vulnerable men, women, and children.”
Did you catch that last part? About vulnerable women and children?
One of the six aforementioned recipient charities of the papal largess will be the Center for Family Services (CFS).
And guess who is one of their “partners and providers” listed on the site?
That’s right… the multi-billion dollar abortion provider outed for wholesaling late-term aborted children’s body parts.
And it gets better.
CFS got $677,797 for their efforts to push Obamacare (Planned Parenthood got money, too), a law which it’s well-established funds American abortions. Archbishop Chaput has been a vocal detractor of Obamacare for this reason among others.
I don’t know who screwed up with the vetting here, or how they say they’re using the money, or the extent to which Francis’s Vatican and Chaput’s Archdiocese exercise actual control over this fund, Save Jerseyans, but if the Catholic Church wants to be spared yet another embarrassment at a time when many of us are questioning what this Pope stands for, then someone needs to intervene here.
Immediately.
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God is providing us opportunities to send the Vatican a wake up call.
Thank you, Diago. You’re doing much good work for the babies (and their mothers). I’ve forwarded this article to the various social networking sites.
Coleus, what’s up with this?
Thanks. Here’s more:
OFFICE OF THE ARCHBISHOP
ARCHBISHOP CHARLES J. CHAPUT, O.F.M. Cap.
Archdiocesan Pastoral Center
222 North 17th Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1299
shepherd@chs-adphila.org
Secretary to the Archbishop
Rev. John Chung Nguyen
215-587-3800
fr.jnguyen@chs-adphila.org
Senior Adviser and Special Assistant to the Archbishop
Francis X. Maier
215-587-0518
fmaier@archphila.org
Thanks, going for it!
This article is inflammatory and misleading. The so-called “Francis Fund” is not sponsored or endorsed by the Pope, nor has the Vatican ever even heard of it. It is not a “charity” sponsored by the Catholic Church. It is a civic non-profit started by secular, government entities.
Now, granted, we don’t want to see Archbishop Chaput’s name connected with PP. But that is another issue, he was not involved with establishing this organization, as the article implies but does not state outright (since it is not true).
I’m sure if his Excellency knew PP were a direct beneficiary of the temporary “charity” funds, he would be unhappy about lending his name to what is otherwise a seemingly decent, if left-leaning and vague, plethora of community groups.
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