Amid a contentious feud with Pope Leo XIV regarding U.S. military interventions over the past several months, including the war in Iran, the Trump administration has ended an $11 million contract with the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami. The contract through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) gave funds to the organization to provide housing and other resources for…
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This sounds like it’s money going towards real good being done for real people who need it, so it probably shouldn’t, but… the idea of Trump cutting funding from the Catholic Church REALLY makes me giggle.
I think you’re right that it’s definitely going towards good things nowadays (I mean, unless you consider the Church as a whole to be bad enough that offsetting any amount of spending for charitable purposes doesn’t outweigh the harm from everything else) but it is at least interesting to read into the origins of the cooperation. Originally it was a program called Operación Pedro Pan (Operation Peter Pan) which was aimed at taking children out of Cuba and taking them to Catholic organizations in the US. It was done with the parents’ consent, but it still is broadly criticized for having been an op that’s 1 degree of separation away from a human trafficking operation (ironically, carried out by 2 institutions that would later be disgraced by the Catholic Church’s child sexual abuse scandal as well as the Epstein files for the US government).
