Posted on 04/27/2019 1:34:03 PM PDT by Jyotishi
Pope Francis donated $500,000 to Mexico-based projects to help migrant communities as media attention has faded, the Vatican said Saturday.
The funds will be distributed between 27 projects associated with 16 Mexican dioceses and congregations, all of which asked for help to continue providing food, lodging, and basic necessities to those fleeing their home countries through Mexico.
“In recent months, thousands of migrants have arrived in Mexico, having travelled more than 4,000 kilometers on foot and with makeshift vehicles from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Men and women, often with young children, flee poverty and violence, hoping for a better future in the United States. However, the U.S. border remains closed to them,” said a press release from Peter's Pence, the organization handling the funds.
Peter’s Pence's collections are funds earmarked "to provide the Holy Father with the financial means to respond to those who are suffering as a result of war, oppression, natural disaster, and disease," according to its website.
The money is specifically meant to aid the 75,000 migrants who arrived in Mexico in 2018 as part of six caravans, according to a press release from Peter's Pence.
http://www.peterspence.va/en/opere-realizzate/messico.html
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Peter’s Pence funds “to provide the Holy Father with the financial means to respond to those who are suffering as a result of war, oppression, natural disaster, and disease,”
Are these qualifications suited to thid situation?
Most Liberal American Catholics love this Pope.
A lot of atheists love this Pope.
But what are most conservative American Catholics going to do? Give assent through their silence?
Why isn’t this an act of war?
Many conservative Catholics no longer contribute $$$ either to this Pope or American bishops.
all catholic churches have now declared war on America.
Their supreme leader has betrayed them . They must divorce the Vatican or be complicit and guilty of treasonous acts
How many tickets to Rome will that buy with a large block purchase?
He is not a holy man. No matter how you cut it. He is a politician, and that is it.
I was raised Catholic.
All the money I put in the collection basket from the time I was a kid up to and including my early thirties, I want it back, with interest.
FU Poop Francis!
it is an act of of war by the national sovereign state of the vatican that is in league with Islam
Ah, and how did The Vatican get its sovereignty?
They made a deal with Mussolini to look the other way at his transgressions.
The Vatican state has had sovereignty for hundreds of years
“Liberal Catholics”
Oxymoron
Can’t promote invasion and be in good standing with the Church
Catechism states invasion, illegal immigration and any illegal activity is against Church teaching
Look up The Lateran Treaty of 1929
How about giving the $500,000.00 to the victims of priest pedofiles I am Catholic and I can’t begin to explain my utter disgust for this Pope!!!!
OUTRAGEOUS!!! Let the Pope use that money to bring all 75,000 to Italy!!!!!
Imagine the United States at open war, with the Vatican?
Everything I grew up believing at war.
I know in my heart the Vatican is corrupt and we are fighting the deep state.
Its puts me in a position where I defend the constitution and my oath
My faith is as it always was between God and me
First off, this Pope is a Kommie Jackass
2nd
“travelled more than 4,000 kilometers on foot and with makeshift vehicles from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. “
Liars
Them vehicles are very recent vintage
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