The Catholic Church Is A Welfare Queen

Last year, when COVID-19 forced most churches to close their doors and give up the lifeblood of their Sunday collections, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte turned to the Paycheck Protection Program [PPP], the federal government’s signature small business relief program, and received more than $8 million.

Trouble is, the diocese had more than $100 million of their own cash and short-term investments available last spring, and then, when the cash catastrophe that church leaders feared didn’t materialize, those assets grew to over $110 million by the summer.

And they kept that $8 million.

People losing their homes, their jobs, small businesses going under, but the Catholic takes a handout when they don’t even need it.

In fact, as the pandemic spread across the country, many Catholic dioceses held out their hands and received aid through the PPP while having over $10 billion in cash, short-term investments or other available funds. And, again, while businesses folded and people suffered, the Catholic Church continued to grow its assets.

Overall, the nearly 200 dioceses in this country, and other Catholic institutions received at least $3 billion, making the Roman Catholic Church the biggest beneficiary of the paycheck program.

That’s the Catholic Church; making money off a pandemic and the suffering of their own parishioners. But do we expect anything else from an organization that aids and abets child raping priests?

AP