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<p>With Trump’s strict immigration policies, the USCCB and its cohorts Catholic Charities and Catholic Social Services collectively stand to lose nearly $2.4 billion over the next four years, a sum that pew collections are unlikely to replace.</p><p>Now, with Donald Trump back in the White House, there are plans for mass deportations.</p>

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, a rare federal foray into such cases looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them, officials and others familiar with the inquiry told The Associated Press. More than a dozen alleged abuse victims have been interviewed this year as part of the probe that’s exploring among other charges whether predator priests can be prosecuted under the Mann Act, a more than century-old, anti-sex trafficking law that prohibits taking anyone across...

Abp. Aymond on 'witch hunt' to find names of accusersNEW ORLEANS (ChurchMilitant.com) - (caution: explicit content) Explosive new allegations have surfaced against the archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana alleging sex abuse. Richard Windmann, president of Survivors of Childhood Sex Abuse, reported Sunday that at least four individuals are accusing Abp. Gregory Aymond of abuse. Allegations of AbuseTwo sources have spoken directly with Windmann about alleged abuse at the hands of the archbishop: "One who lived in Austin, Texas when Aymond was the bishop of Austin, and another who now lives in California, then a child, who claims the same abuse...

NEW ORLEANS, [LA], February 5, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of New Orleans plans to do more than simply oppose the construction of a new $4.2 million Planned Parenthood abortion facility in the Big Easy. The archdiocese has announced it will boycott all businesses that in any way participate in or facilitate its erection. Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond made the announcement in a letter to his diocese January 27th.

The Archdiocese of New Orleans and its charitable arm, Catholic Charities, said Tuesday they will pay $5.182 million to an undisclosed number of adults who claimed that years ago as children they were beaten, berated and sexually molested at two Catholic orphanages that were supposed to shelter them because their families were in disarray. The archdiocese announced a package settlement of 20 lawsuits, most of them filed by adults alleging that in the 1950s and 1960s they were abused at Madonna Manor and nearby Hope Haven on the West Bank. "I hope these mediations and negotiations will bring some peace...