Catholic Church won $1.4B in taxpayer-funded coronavirus aid

[JustAGuy1]

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data released this week found.

Houses of worship and faith-based organizations that promote religious beliefs aren’t usually eligible for money from the U.S. Small Business Administration. But as the economy plummeted and jobless rates soared, Congress let faith groups and other nonprofits tap into the Paycheck Protection Program, a $659 billion fund created to keep main street open and Americans employed.

By aggressively promoting the payroll program and marshaling resources to help affiliates navigate its shifting rules, Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools and other ministries have so far received approval for at least 3,500 forgivable loans, AP found.

Catholic Church won $1.4B in taxpayer-funded coronavirus aid

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts.

www.foxbusiness.com

Not a good idea

 

[theHawk]

Good for them. Better them than Planned Parenthood.

 

[whitehall]

What's the point? It's not O.K. for Catholics to receive coronavirus aid?

 

[JustAGuy1]

First, the Catholic Church has more money than Gpd. Second, Fedral Dollars put into Religious institutions is not a good idea.

 

[martybegan]

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data released this week found.

Houses of worship and faith-based organizations that promote religious beliefs aren’t usually eligible for money from the U.S. Small Business Administration. But as the economy plummeted and jobless rates soared, Congress let faith groups and other nonprofits tap into the Paycheck Protection Program, a $659 billion fund created to keep main street open and Americans employed.

By aggressively promoting the payroll program and marshaling resources to help affiliates navigate its shifting rules, Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools and other ministries have so far received approval for at least 3,500 forgivable loans, AP found.

Catholic Church won $1.4B in taxpayer-funded coronavirus aid

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts.

www.foxbusiness.com

Not a good idea

Wow is this article screaming of anti-catholic bias.

It does the typical trope of bringing up something barely related to the current topic at hand when describing what happened, to just allude to the settlements that have happened with regards to the abuse cases.

Nevermind this money has nothing to do with that.

The money they got was what many businesses got to keep people on the payroll, keep their mortgage/rent and utility payments up to date, and more than likely have to meet the same documentation standards to turn the loans into grants that all the other recipients had to do.

 

[Mac-7]

Not a good idea

Agreed

this entire wuflu shutdown followed by borrowed helicopter money is insane

 

[Gantlemagne]

First, the Catholic Church has more money than Gpd. Second, Fedral Dollars put into Religious institutions is not a good idea.

Also, it's a bad idea since it's giving money to a terrorist state that was founded by the Axis powers, whose dedicated members have been involved in terrorist acts across the globe, and has a tendency throughout it's history of committing genocide and other horrible atrocities. Anti Gay, declared Protestants, Masons, and Schismatics (Greek Orthodox Churches) as heretics, and is governed by Vatican canon law, which has it's own set of issues concerning Roman catholic and non-Roman catholic relations. Oh... and they have an agenda of global domination through Spain and Portugal as per the Treaty of Tordesillas which is being invoked by Argentina and Chile and Indonesia.

 

[Moonglow]

Not a good idea

Agreed

this entire wuflu shutdown followed by borrowed helicopter money is insane

But Trump, Repubs and Dems all love it! It's like free shit! It's like they want free shit!!!

 

[Mac-7]

But Trump, Repubs and Dems all love it! It's like free shit! It's like they want free shit!!!

I dont always agree with trump

 

[martybegan]

First, the Catholic Church has more money than Gpd. Second, Fedral Dollars put into Religious institutions is not a good idea.

Also, it's a bad idea since it's giving money to a terrorist state that was founded by the Axis powers, whose dedicated members have been involved in terrorist acts across the globe, and has a tendency throughout it's history of committing genocide and other horrible atrocities. Anti Gay, declared Protestants, Masons, and Schismatics (Greek Orthodox Churches) as heretics, and is governed by Vatican canon law, which has it's own set of issues concerning Roman catholic and non-Roman catholic relations. Oh... and they have an agenda of global domination through Spain and Portugal as per the Treaty of Tordesillas which is being invoked by Argentina and Chile and Indonesia.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data released this week found.

Houses of worship and faith-based organizations that promote religious beliefs aren’t usually eligible for money from the U.S. Small Business Administration. But as the economy plummeted and jobless rates soared, Congress let faith groups and other nonprofits tap into the Paycheck Protection Program, a $659 billion fund created to keep main street open and Americans employed.

By aggressively promoting the payroll program and marshaling resources to help affiliates navigate its shifting rules, Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools and other ministries have so far received approval for at least 3,500 forgivable loans, AP found.

Catholic Church won $1.4B in taxpayer-funded coronavirus aid

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts.

www.foxbusiness.com

Not a good idea

Wow is this article screaming of anti-catholic bias.

It does the typical trope of bringing up something barely related to the current topic at hand when describing what happened, to just allude to the settlements that have happened with regards to the abuse cases.

Nevermind this money has nothing to do with that.

The money they got was what many businesses got to keep people on the payroll, keep their mortgage/rent and utility payments up to date, and more than likely have to meet the same documentation standards to turn the loans into grants that all the other recipients had to do.

The Catholic Church is the largest charitable organisation in the world.

Thousands of not millions depend on it's help

 

[martybegan]

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data released this week found.

Houses of worship and faith-based organizations that promote religious beliefs aren’t usually eligible for money from the U.S. Small Business Administration. But as the economy plummeted and jobless rates soared, Congress let faith groups and other nonprofits tap into the Paycheck Protection Program, a $659 billion fund created to keep main street open and Americans employed.

By aggressively promoting the payroll program and marshaling resources to help affiliates navigate its shifting rules, Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools and other ministries have so far received approval for at least 3,500 forgivable loans, AP found.

Catholic Church won $1.4B in taxpayer-funded coronavirus aid

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts.

www.foxbusiness.com

Not a good idea

Wow is this article screaming of anti-catholic bias.

It does the typical trope of bringing up something barely related to the current topic at hand when describing what happened, to just allude to the settlements that have happened with regards to the abuse cases.

Nevermind this money has nothing to do with that.

The money they got was what many businesses got to keep people on the payroll, keep their mortgage/rent and utility payments up to date, and more than likely have to meet the same documentation standards to turn the loans into grants that all the other recipients had to do.

The Catholic Church is the largest charitable organisation in the world.

Thousands of not millions depend on it's help

Hopefully the Salvation Army is also taking advantage of this to keep their staff employed and their centers open.

They are my Amazon Smile donation selection.

 

[Muhammed]

First, the Catholic Church has more money than Gpd. Second, Fedral Dollars put into Religious institutions is not a good idea.

It's not the purview of the federal government to determine what is or is not a religious institution in the first place.

The 1st amendment forbids it.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data released this week found.

Houses of worship and faith-based organizations that promote religious beliefs aren’t usually eligible for money from the U.S. Small Business Administration. But as the economy plummeted and jobless rates soared, Congress let faith groups and other nonprofits tap into the Paycheck Protection Program, a $659 billion fund created to keep main street open and Americans employed.

By aggressively promoting the payroll program and marshaling resources to help affiliates navigate its shifting rules, Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools and other ministries have so far received approval for at least 3,500 forgivable loans, AP found.

Catholic Church won $1.4B in taxpayer-funded coronavirus aid

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts.

www.foxbusiness.com

Not a good idea

Wow is this article screaming of anti-catholic bias.

It does the typical trope of bringing up something barely related to the current topic at hand when describing what happened, to just allude to the settlements that have happened with regards to the abuse cases.

Nevermind this money has nothing to do with that.

The money they got was what many businesses got to keep people on the payroll, keep their mortgage/rent and utility payments up to date, and more than likely have to meet the same documentation standards to turn the loans into grants that all the other recipients had to do.

The Catholic Church is the largest charitable organisation in the world.

Thousands of not millions depend on it's help

Hopefully the Salvation Army is also taking advantage of this to keep their staff employed and their centers open.

They are my Amazon Smile donation selection.

Our outreach is blessed with an over abundance of donations, we steer some of that to other organizations helping the less fortunate. A Salvation Army women's shelter is on our list. Usually clothing for women and children and baby formula.

 

[Gantlemagne]

Let's look at the work of the Roman church:
Reichskonkordat 1933, a Nazi-Vatican Agreement.
Look at the neo-Nazism in Poland.
You... I don't see how anyone is supporting such an organization as the Roman church. Abuse cover ups. Inquisitions/Holocausts. The skewed representation in Italy's favor.

And there's this:

90 percent of Vatican's main charity funds reportedly not going to poor, US pastor weighs in

A report in The Wall Street Journal exposed earlier this week just how much money the pope's main charity, called Peter's Pence, actually gives to the poor, in what Fox Nation's Raymond Arroyo described as an "ugly story."

www.foxnews.com

It's totally the church of fleecing wolves and foolish sheeple. And the United States just got fleeced.

 

[Vandalshandle]

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data released this week found.

Houses of worship and faith-based organizations that promote religious beliefs aren’t usually eligible for money from the U.S. Small Business Administration. But as the economy plummeted and jobless rates soared, Congress let faith groups and other nonprofits tap into the Paycheck Protection Program, a $659 billion fund created to keep main street open and Americans employed.

By aggressively promoting the payroll program and marshaling resources to help affiliates navigate its shifting rules, Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools and other ministries have so far received approval for at least 3,500 forgivable loans, AP found.

Catholic Church won $1.4B in taxpayer-funded coronavirus aid

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts.

www.foxbusiness.com

Not a good idea

This should be enough to pay off class action priest sexual abuse lawsuits for several more years....

 

[The Irish Ram]

The Catholic Church/liberal pope is responsible for dispersing the illegals around our country. He needs to mind his own business

 

[protectionist]

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data released this week found.

Houses of worship and faith-based organizations that promote religious beliefs aren’t usually eligible for money from the U.S. Small Business Administration. But as the economy plummeted and jobless rates soared, Congress let faith groups and other nonprofits tap into the Paycheck Protection Program, a $659 billion fund created to keep main street open and Americans employed.

By aggressively promoting the payroll program and marshaling resources to help affiliates navigate its shifting rules, Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools and other ministries have so far received approval for at least 3,500 forgivable loans, AP found.

Catholic Church won $1.4B in taxpayer-funded coronavirus aid

The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts.

www.foxbusiness.com

Not a good idea

How many Rolls Royces were bought ? How many Bugattis ? Mansions ?

 

[Resnic]

What's the point? It's not O.K. for Catholics to receive coronavirus aid?

They don't pay taxes and get way more than that given to them each year from their flock.

Fuck em. They can afford their own shit. Call me back when they pay taxes.