Posted on 05/03/2022 7:28:11 PM PDT by marshmallow
On the first Saturday of each month, Msgr. John Enzler celebrates Mass for the Missionaries of Charity and the residents at the Gift of Peace home in Northeast Washington, D.C. The home founded by Mother Teresa in 1986 to care for people with AIDS continues that saint’s legacy of caring for the poor to residents there who now include the elderly, homeless and some people with terminal illnesses.
Since early 2020, that property owned by Catholic Charities of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has also been the site of another mission of faith and service, as the five-acre field adjoining the Gift of Peace home has been the site of more than 5,000 solar panels forming the largest solar array in the District of Columbia.
“Every time I go (there), I feel pride to see it (the solar array) is functioning and working well,” said Msgr. Enzler, the president and CEO of Catholic Charities in the archdiocese.
Catholic Charities’ solar array fulfills a two-fold purpose. It answers the call of Pope Francis in his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home and the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI and St. John Paul II, that it is important for people to do what they can to preserve the environment for present and future generations, and that it is a matter of faith to care for God’s creation.
Plus, the value of the energy generated by the solar array – 2.35 million kilowatt hours in the past year – offsets nearly all of the energy costs for Catholic Charities’ 12 buildings in the District of Columbia, and also helps pay for the energy and maintenance costs for the Gift of Peace building.
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There’s a huge opportunity cost to turning a five acre field into a power plant in D.C. Think of all the low-income housing for the homeless that could be built on that site. They could easily have 1,000 units there. Seems like a solar power plant is a gross underutilization of that asset.
As a lifelong Catholic, I don’t give a dime to any Catholic organization until US Catholic Bishops or Vardinals take a firm stand “against” Biden and democrats for their a ortion stand!
Catholic Charities:
Neither Catholic, nor a Charity.
“In an April 22 statement, Bishop Emeritus Michael D. Pfeifer, of San Angelo, Texas, called on his fellow bishops to do more to correct Biden and others who reject the sanctity of human life, according to the Catholic News Agency.
“If abortion is really the preeminent life issues as we bishops say it is, then we must hold President Biden accountable for his pro-abortion extremism, calling out Biden in a proper pastoral manner, for his anti-Catholic pro-abortion policies,” Pfeifer said.
So I’ve heard.
Catholic charities is one of the wholesale importers of illegal aliens
No doubt this is an improvident use of prime urban land, but if they believed they had to do something green, at least they didn’t wreck five acres of countryside.
They were the only charity I was giving money to for years until I discovered they were working hard to help illegals coming across the border. Even my diocese in Tucson openly advocates for the illegals, which is appalling to me. So I turned off the spigot to all of them. Encouraging lawlessness is not being a good Shepherd for the money they receive from parishioners.
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