Posted on 08/31/2025 10:37:16 AM PDT by Angelino97
The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference called for a special collection to bolster the Catholic Church’s response to a deepening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas war continues to grind on.
In a letter to his brother bishops, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, urged them to hold a “special collection to provide humanitarian relief and pastoral support for our affected brothers and sisters in Gaza and surrounding areas in the Middle East” through both Catholic Near East Welfare Association and Catholic Relief Services, the overseas humanitarian relief agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S.
Excerpts of the letter, dated Aug. 12 according to CNEWA, were released by both CNEWA and the USCCB Aug. 20.
“It is with great pastoral concern for the ongoing crisis in Gaza that I write to you today,” the archbishop, who also heads the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, said in his letter. “Our Church mourns the terrible suffering of Christians and other innocent victims of violence in Gaza and surrounding areas who are struggling to survive, protect their children, and live with dignity in dire conditions.”
A Palestinian girl, whose parents and brother were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on a tent, mourns during their funeral at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, Aug. 20, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Dawoud Abu Alkas, Reuters
(OSV News) — The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference called for a special collection to bolster the Catholic Church’s response to a deepening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas war continues to grind on.
In a letter to his brother bishops, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, urged them to hold a “special collection to provide humanitarian relief and pastoral support for our affected brothers and sisters in Gaza and surrounding areas in the Middle East” through both Catholic Near East Welfare Association and Catholic Relief Services, the overseas humanitarian relief agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S.
Excerpts of the letter, dated Aug. 12 according to CNEWA, were released by both CNEWA and the USCCB Aug. 20.
“It is with great pastoral concern for the ongoing crisis in Gaza that I write to you today,” the archbishop, who also heads the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, said in his letter. “Our Church mourns the terrible suffering of Christians and other innocent victims of violence in Gaza and surrounding areas who are struggling to survive, protect their children, and live with dignity in dire conditions.”
In July, organizations including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the U.N. World Food Program, and UNICEF warned that a hunger crisis was deepening in the devastated area, exceeding famine thresholds, with more than one in three people going days at a time without eating.
Archbishop Broglio noted Pope Leo XIV “continues to call for a ceasefire and for aid to enter the territory, noting with great sorrow that ‘Gaza is starving.’”
He said both CNEWA and CRS have well-established partnerships in the region that allow the Catholic Church to deliver aid quickly and efficiently to the Gaza Strip.
”The situation in Gaza and across the Middle East cries out for assistance of the Catholic community of the United States,” Archbishop Broglio wrote. “I ask that you take up this collection and send funds to CNEWA and CRS as soon as possible.”
Cindy McCain was on Face The Nation crying the same - implying that Israel was causing the famine without quite saying that out loud.
Meanwhile she and these bishops want us to continue fattening the terrorists responsible. Pound sand.
I don’t hear that at Mass last night. Uh… thank you, no In the collection is taken in my parish. The issue is not an insufficient quantity of aid. Aid will flow just fine when the Israelis finish overthrowing the Hamas government
there are literally hundreds of tons of free food and provisions already being given to people in gaza district, by Israel (primarily) and recently also by USA (with some lesser donations coming from additional places)
The IDF facilitates entry and distribution to be as safe as possible, though the Fakestinian terrorists continue trying to hijack the free aid convoys (and they’ve even been stealing the food boxes directly out of the hands of recipients after they leave the aid distribution sites)
If the Church wishes to contribute to the effort, fine and dandy. But the problem isn’t any lack of free food or provisions. There’s a big surplus of most everything needed. The problem is the terrorists continue to attack...
I’m gonna go to mass next week and take money out of the second collection.
They’re the same SCUM that were promoting and proctecting the ILLEGALS!!! NOT ONE F-ING CENT TO THE BASS-TURDS!
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