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Olde Tyme Religion
Vatican official rips Trump for 'breaking commitments' with USAID cuts, says migrant are being 'terrorized' amid crackdown
2025-02-10
[MAIL] A Vatican official has slammed Donald Trump for 'breaking commitments' with his cuts to USAID and and warned people are being 'terrorized' amid his crackdown on migrants.

Pope Francis' adviser on migration and development Cardinal Michael Czerny has urged the president to remember his Christian values.

'A crackdown is a terrible way to administer affairs and much less to administer justice,' said Czerny, whose own family immigrated to Canada from the Czech Republic as refugees after World War II.

'And so I'm very sorry that many people are being hurt and indeed terrorized by the measures.

'All we can hope for is that the people, God's people and the people of goodwill, will help and protect those vulnerable people who are suddenly made much more vulnerable.'
How much is the Catholic church losing due to the stop of USAID and other Uncle Sugar paymasters?
Czerny heads the church's Caritas Internationalis charity and development which is among the organizations affected by Trump's decision to axe foreign aid spending.
Related:
Michael Czerny 03/18/2018 Europe migrant colonist briefs

Posted by:Besoeker

#16  Another farking Jesuit.

It's not the Jesuit I mind so much as the Commie.
Man, I'm so old I remember when the Pope used to be a moral authority.
Posted by: SteveS   2025-02-10 20:10  

#15  Thus poopeth the Poop.
Posted by: Woodrow   2025-02-10 20:03  

#14  He wants to be the first pope to get drone zapped when he declares war on America.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2025-02-10 19:54  

#13  

ACA JOE again
Posted by: Doliamo    2025-02-10 16:34  

#12  ... "And if you don't understand this - that proves that you are not as smart as we (the intellectual elites) are!"
Posted by: Grom the Affective   2025-02-10 14:45  

#11  #10 "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength," - 1984
Posted by: Grom the Affective   2025-02-10 14:44  

#10  I am confused. How is an organization completely funded by taxpayers and run under the conditions of government agencies, a Non Governmental Organization?
Posted by: Regular joe   2025-02-10 14:28  

#9  I like LOVE comment #6. That would be a hilarious solution.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2025-02-10 11:41  

#8  Part of the problem is that people are trying to scare everybody: "ICE is going to deport anyone with a Hispanic surname", "ICE is going to go into schools and carry out kids", "Kids are going to go home from school and find their parents gone", etc.
At this point, most of those arrested and deported are those who have committed other crimes - rape, robbery, murder.
Posted by: Rambler   2025-02-10 10:35  

#7  Zero-refugee policy sees Denmark cut asylum figures to a record low of 860 - compared to Britain's 68,000
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-02-10 09:37  

#6  Ok, fuck you and we'll dump them in Vatican city. Try to do something about it you stupid fuck.
Posted by: DarthVader   2025-02-10 09:36  

#5  Another farking Jesuit.
Posted by: Wheck Peacock1927   2025-02-10 09:32  

#4  
OBTW:
Top NGO's USAID Recipients
(fiscal Years 2013-2022)

The CRS was #1.
Posted by: Cheager Snert7014   2025-02-10 06:35  

#3  Layoffs have already begun as CRS has been forced to begin shutting down programs funded by USAID, which supplies about half of the Catholic organization's $1.5 billion budget, said CRS president and CEO Sean Callahan in a staffwide email sent Feb. 3.
Posted by: Glusomp Spealet4328   2025-02-10 06:02  

#2  USAID has had huge commitments with Catholic Relief Services.
Posted by: Glusomp Spealet4328   2025-02-10 05:58  

#1  

Ok, I'll ask.
How much did the VATICAN get, in 1 way or another via USAID?
Posted by: NN2N1   2025-02-10 05:17  

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