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February 11, 2012
Get US Conference of Catholic Bishops off the US taxpayer dole!
By Amanda Lang
That is right, you might think they are standing up for the "poor and vulnerable," but they are standing up for the millions of federal dollars they receive to run not only their field operations through Catholic Charities but their Washington, DC lobbying office funded by you! 2009 USCCB annual report tells the story...check out the USCCB Office of Migration and Refugee Services annual report here. Note that in an overall annual income stream ...
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That is right, you might think they are standing up for the "poor and vulnerable," but they are standing up for the millions of federal dollars they receive to run not only their field operations through Catholic Charities but their Washington, DC lobbying office funded by you! 2009 USCCB annual report tells the story...check out the USCCB Office of Migration and Refugee Services annual report here. Note that in an overall annual income stream of $62 million, $58 million comes from the taxpayer! Only $1.3 million comes from collections taken up during mass. Get off the tit Bishops!!OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.
Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.