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Pennsylvania: Catholic Charities Shopping for New Refugee Sites within 100-Mile Radius

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And, they are accompanied by a paper company executive who wants a small community nearly 60 miles from Harrisburg, PA to ‘welcome’ refugees the company wants to employ. I have been saying for twelve years that there is an unholy alliance between businesses seeking cheap labor and ‘religious’ resettlement contractors acting as their head hunters! … Continue reading Pennsylvania: Catholic Charities Shopping for New Refugee Sites within 100-Mile Radius

Portland, OR: Refugee federal funding uncertainty causes Catholic Charities to fire some staff

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Well, nothing new there you say! Right! However, a couple of things in this otherwise ho-hum news story make it worth posting. First, because Catholic Charities of Oregon (a refugee agency subcontractor of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops) isn’t getting in massive new waves of fresh refugee clients, they are focusing on better care … Continue reading Portland, OR: Refugee federal funding uncertainty causes Catholic Charities to fire some staff

Syracuse, NY letter to editor: help me with Catholic Charities fuzzy math

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I’m happy to report on a letter-to-the-editor at Syracuse.com because I had meant to post on the original article that generated this reader’s letter and never got around to it. Letter-writer George Checksfield is referring to an article, here, in which we learn that the State of New York is plugging the “hole” created by … Continue reading Syracuse, NY letter to editor: help me with Catholic Charities fuzzy math

Catholic Charities of Minnesota drops refugee program; will take care of poor and homeless already among us

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At least one of the major players in Minnesota’s refugee industry has woken up and smelled the coffee—gobs of federal money is not going to flow to the resettlement of more refugees to Minnesota, especially Somalis, in the foreseeable future. One of the first questions people ask me when they first hear about the UN/US … Continue reading Catholic Charities of Minnesota drops refugee program; will take care of poor and homeless already among us

Catholic Charities can't have cake and eat it too in Lesbian adoption case, or….

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…to put it another way—Live by the government, die by the government! I wasn’t planning to get into this story about how a Lesbian couple was denied the right to foster a refugee child by Catholic Charities because the couple is a same-sex couple, but couldn’t resist when I saw this Leftwing report on a … Continue reading Catholic Charities can't have cake and eat it too in Lesbian adoption case, or….