2.9 BILLION Reasons Bishops Loved Biden But Hate Trump

 

January 24, 2025 

Tags Illegal Immigration from Complicit Clergy by Staff

For the past four years, many Catholics have been perplexed as to why most Catholic bishops have refused to condemn Joe Biden’s heinous anti-Catholic policies. Additionally, these bishops have openly welcomed Biden to receive Holy Communion, in spite of Canon 915 stating Catholics who “obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”  It will be of little surprise if Biden goes-down in history as America’s most radical anti-Catholic president.

For those who continue to be astonished by our shepherds’ silence, we may have discovered the answer. Complicit Clergy just completed updating its previous analysis on migration-related federal funding awarded to Catholic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to include all four years of the Biden administration.

The project involved extracting federal immigration-related transactions from USAspending.gov for the 16 year period between 2009 to 2024. We reviewed all the organizations receiving immigration-related federal assistance, flagging those NGOs affiliated with the Catholic Church. We then determined in which Catholic diocese each of these organization reside. Finally, we loaded this data into Tableau, a software system that helps people explore data insights through intuitive visualizations.

People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but in this case, it’s worth BILLIONS. The Biden administration granted Catholic NGOs nearly $2.9 billion in immigration-related funding over the past four years. That’s more than TRIPLE the level of funding under Trump’s first administration and nearly DOUBLE the amount awarded under the Obama administration over the course of EIGHT YEARS!

Since 2009, Catholic NGOs have pocketed $5.2 BILLION of our hard-earned tax dollars over a 16 year period by providing immigration-related services to the federal government. What is truly astounding is that over half this amount was awarded in just the past four years!  Please keep in mind that this $5.2 billion figure is likely largely understated due to the facts:

• our analysis only includes federal programs that are clearly associated with immigration – NGOs are likely using funds from non-immigration related programs to serve the migrant community;
• our analysis does not include state-funded programs, such as the money being provided to Catholic university Seton Hallwhich offers legal services to illegal aliens;
• our analysis does not include non-Catholic organizations – we saw evidence of state agencies sharing their funding with Catholic NGOs without specifically making a subaward to these organizations;
• while we did our best to include all Catholic NGOs in our analysis, we undoubtedly missed some Catholic organizations which lack Catholic identifying characteristics in their names.

More: https://www.complicitclergy.com/2025/01/24/bought-and-paid-for-2-9-billion-reasons-bishops-hate-trump-but-loved-biden/

Scripture for today: “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you…”

1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children;

2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.
3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:
4 Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurrility, which is to no purpose; but rather giving of thanks.

5 For know you this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which is a serving of idols), hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.
7 Be ye not therefore partakers with them.
8 For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.

- Lesson from the letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians

Eph 5:1-8

Trump, Vance address March for Life, pledge pro-life second Trump term

 CV NEWS FEED // Both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance addressed participants at the 52nd annual March for Life which took place in Washington, D.C. Friday, pledging that Trump’s second term would be staunchly pro-life and also bring pro-abortion groups to justice for attacking churches and pro-life clinics.

The president did not personally attend the march as he was traversing the country that day to meet with victims of both Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the ongoing wildfires in southern California.

In a video message to the marchers, Trump thanked them “for turning out once again to show your extraordinary love and compassion for the unborn.”

“Each year, Americans of every age, color, and background travel to our nation’s capital by the tens of thousands to stand up for precious little babies who cannot stand up for themselves,” the president continued. 

He added that he is “proud to be the first president ever to have joined you in person,” referring to when he spoke at the 2020 March for Life, the last march of his first term.

Trump went on to celebrate the landmark Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. He decried Roeas a “disastrous ruling” and “unconstitutional decision” that “took power away from the states and the voters, kicking off 50 years of division and anger.”

“But thanks to your tireless work and devotion across five decades, that historic wrong was set right three years ago,” he said. “I was so proud to be a participant.” During his first term, Trump appointed three of the six justices who voted to overturn Roe.

“In my second term, we will again stand proudly for families and for life,” Trump vowed. “We will protect the historic gains we have made and stop the radical Democrat push for a federal right to unlimited abortion on demand up to the moment of birth, and even after birth.”

“We will work to offer a loving hand to new mothers and young families, and we will support support adoption and foster care,” he stressed. “We will protect women and vulnerable children.”

More: https://catholicvote.org/most-pro-life-pro-family-president-trump-sends-video-message-to-2025-march-for-life-vance-addresses-marchers-in-person/

Confraternity of Priests Meet in Rome: “ the “greatest challenge facing us is the devil”

Priests at Rome Conference Share Their Challenges, Strong Signs of Hope

Clergy speak with the Register about falling Mass attendance and other concerns, while highlighting how the young faithful’s seeking out Christ in particular brings hope in the Jubilee Year.

Clergy assemble for a photo during the Third International Convocation of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, held Jan. 13-17, in Rome. (photo: Edward Pentin)

Edward Pentin WorldJanuary 24, 2025

Editor's Note: This story is expanded coverage of the Third International Convocation of the Confraternities of Catholic Clergy. The first part included comments from Cardinals Robert Sarah, Gerhard Müller and Raymond Burke.

ROME — Priests in the West today are facing a raft of challenges, from declining church attendance to critical financial conditions in many parishes, which they say are being compounded by confusing messaging and little encouragement coming from the Vatican and bishops. 

But they are also seeing signs of hope — especially among the young — as people are drawn to the beauty, truth and goodness of the faith and are beginning to demand from the Church reverent liturgies, sound doctrine, and a sense of stability and transcendence in a disordered world. 

These were just some of the observations made by clergy from Australia, the U.S., the U.K. and Spain who spoke with the Register on the sidelines of the Third International Convocation of the Confraternities of Catholic Clergy that took place Jan. 13-17 in Rome. 

Founded by American Father Robert Levis in 1975, the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy is a grassroots association of more than 500 Catholic priests worldwide that grew out of the post-conciliar turmoil of the 1970s.

“Many priests were leaving at the time, and so the confraternity was founded to encourage them to remain,” said Thomas McKenna, the confraternity’s executive director. “Since then, many clergy have said they owed their decision to remain a priest to the confraternity.” 

About 75 priests attended the event that included talks from Cardinals Robert Sarah, Gerhard Müller and Raymond Burke. 

Father Paul Chandler, parish priest of Inverell in the Archdiocese of Brisbane, Australia, said “one of the greatest challenges is the decline in faith,” leading to Mass attendance in some churches in his diocese dwindling to almost zero as “the older people die off and they’re not being replaced.” 

More: https://www.ncregister.com/news/priests-at-rome-conference-share-their-challenges-strong-signs-of-hope

Former US President Joe Biden risks excommunication by joining Freemasons

 N.B. He is already latae sententiae excommunicated for at lest two offenses: ferociously defending, funding and promoting and praising abortion by every means available and for conducting a same-sex marriage as V.P.

Simon Caldwell

January 29, 2025 at 5:00 pm

Simon Caldwell

January 29, 2025 at 5:00 pm

Former US President Joe Biden has joined the Freemasons even though the Catholic Church can punish membership of the secret society with excommunication. 

Mr Biden, a Catholic, was admitted to the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina on January 19, the day before he handed over the US presidency to Donald Trump.

His membership was announced at a ceremony in which Victor C. Major, the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the South Carolina lodge, said: “I…on behalf of the members of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina, hereby confer membership upon President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. in recognition of his outstanding service to the United States of America.”

By joining the Masons, Mr Biden, 82, puts himself starkly at odds with the teachings of the Catholic Church.

President Joe Biden being made a member of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina on 19 January 2025 (image from conferenceofgrandmasterspha.org)

In its 1983 Declaration on Masonic Associations, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) stated that membership was not permitted in any circumstances.

It said: “The Church’s negative judgement in regard to Masonic association remains unchanged since their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership remains forbidden. 

“The faithful who enrol in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion.”

More. https://catholicherald.co.uk/former-us-president-joe-biden-risks-excommunication-by-joining-freemasons/

Simon Caldwell

January 29, 2025 at 5:00 pm

‘We Have Been Living Under a Lawless Regime’: Catholics Celebrate Trump Overhauls

News that the country’s new president would kick off his administration by signing a tsunami of executive orders, including one that mandates adherence to the biological reality of two sexes, was particularly welcomed by Catholic author Ryan Anderson.

Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson. (photo: EWTN Pro-Life Weekly / EWTN)

Ken Oliver-Méndez/CNANationJanuary 21, 2025

As the newly-installed Trump administration hit the ground running, several high-profile Catholic intellectuals in the United States anticipated and celebrated a number of changes that are coming to the country.

For Trump’s second term in office, author and associate professor of history at the University of Dallas Susan Hanssen noted to CNA that Trump is now “better prepared than his first entry into federal government and unhampered by the need to seek reelection.”

“Trump’s base will be watching hopefully for deep structural changes that cannot be easily reversed or rolled back, particularly to the Department of Justice and FBI so that it cannot be so easily used to target political enemies,” she said.

Read the rest: https://www.ncregister.com/cna/we-have-been-living-under-a-lawless-regime-catholics-celebrate-trump-overhauls

Bishop Thomas Welcomes Restoration of Protections for Preborn Children

WASHINGTON – “We gratefully applaud the decision to end taxpayer-funded abortion,” said Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee for Pro-Life Activities. responding to an executive order and a memorandum issued by President Trump on Friday. The order reverses several policies of the prior Administration that promoted and facilitated abortion with taxpayer resources. The memorandum restores and expands the Mexico City Policy, which prevents taxpayer resources from going to certain organizations that perform or promote abortion overseas.

Bishop Thomas continued, “A significant majority of Americans oppose being forced to support abortion through their tax dollars. I am grateful for the strengthening of policies that protect us from being compelled to participate in a culture of death, and that help us to restore a culture of life at home and abroad.”

More: https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/bishop-thomas-welcomes-restoration-protections-preborn-children

Supreme Court to Review School Refusing Parental Religious Opt-Out for LGBTQ+ Curriculum

 Equal Protection Project considering filing an amicus brief supporting the parents’ right to opt their kids out of objectionable grade-school curriculum on religious grounds

Posted by  James NaultTuesday, January 21, 2025 at 06:00pm24 Comments

We previously reported on the case of Maryland parents suing Montgomery County schools because they refused to let the parents opt their children out of grade-school LGBTQ+ curriculum featuring drag queens, transgender kids, and same-sex marriages. Spoiler alert: the Parents Motion for a Preliminary Injunction to force the schools to allow an opt-out was DENIED: Federal Court Rejects Muslim Parents Lawsuit to Opt Kids Out of LGBTQ+ Ideology in Montgomery County (MD) Schools:

Parents in Montgomery County in Maryland, many of whom are Muslims, wanted the ability to opt their children out of school lessons that include LGBT content and gender ideology.

A federal judge just ruled against them.

Read the rest https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/01/supreme-court-to-review-school-refusing-parental-religious-opt-out-for-lgbtq-curriculum/

 

 

HUGE. Trump's bringing back the Hyde Amendment in full force - something the Democrats and RINOs have been trying to kill for DECADES.

 

Trump bans funding for groups that aid abortion overseas, will enforce Hyde Amendment

President Trump signed an order Friday reinstating a policy that requires foreign nongovernmental agencies to certify that they don't provide or promote abortion if they receive U.S. federal funds for family planning assistance.

The position, sometimes called the Mexico City Policy and referred to by opponents as the "global gag rule," was first introduced more than 40 years ago. Every Republican president has put it in effect, and every Democrathas rescinded it.

Eight years ago, the first Trump administration not only brought back the prohibition but also broadened it to include organizations that comply with the rules but give money to others that don't.

Advocates say the policy, coupled with a law that bars U.S. money from paying for abortion around the globe, has a major impact on abortion availability worldwide — and also blocks aid money from flowing to health organizations for other purposes. They say it hurts reproductive and maternal health care in developing nations by cutting funds to groups that offer critical non-abortion related services, including birth control, nutritional support for infants and HIV/AIDS treatment.

Trump also signed an executive order Friday requiring the enforcement of the Hyde Amendment, which restricts government funding for most abortions

More: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-abortion-funding-mexico-city-policy-hyde-amendment/

Pope Francis accuses TLM Catholics of “mental imbalance, emotional deviation, behavioral difficulties, a personal problem that may be exploited.”

NEWS

Cardinal Sarah: Plans to ‘abolish’ Latin Mass would be ‘diabolical’

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Cardinal Robert Sarah has blasted efforts from the Vatican to ‘abolish’ the Traditional Latin Mass, describing the move as a ‘diabolical project’ that breaks with 1,600 years of tradition.

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

MILAN (LifeSiteNews) — Any attempt to “abolish” the traditional Mass would be a “diabolical project” that “seeks to break with the Church of Christ,” said Cardinal Robert Sarah this week.

“In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but not rupture,” noted Sarah at an event Monday.

Drawing from Pope Benedict XVI’s now famous remark, Sarah made it his own, stating that “what was holy for previous generations remains holy and great for us, and cannot suddenly be forbidden or even judged harmful. It is good for all of us to preserve the riches that have grown in the faith and prayer of the Church and to give them their rightful place.”

Sarah – who served as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (CDW) from 2014-2021 – expanded his harsh criticism of any attempt to abolish the traditional Mass (Latin Mass) by warning that it would be a rejection of Church history.

He stated:

Hence the plan to definitively abolish the traditional Tridentine Mass, a rite that dates back to St. Gregory the Great, a liturgy that is 1,600 years old, a Mass celebrated by so many saints: St. Padre Pio, St. Philip Neri, St. John Mary Vianney: the Curé of Ars, St Francis. de Sales, St. Josemaria Escrivá, etc. And all the way back to Pope Gregory the Great (590-604) and even to Pope Damasus (366-384).

This project, if it is true, seems to me to be an insult to the history of the Church and to Sacred Tradition, a diabolical project that seeks to break with the Church of Christ, the apostles and the saints.

The cardinal’s comments came at a book launch held in Milan by Italian Catholic media outlet La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana. Addressing the conference, Sarah did not limit himself to the theme of his book, Does God exist?, but dealt with a wide-ranging field of subjects relating to the Catholic Church and spirituality.

Read the rest: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-sarah-plans-to-abolish-latin-mass-would-be-diabolical/

President Donald Trump Withdraws America From Pro-Abortion World Health Organization

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order withdrawing from the pro-abortion World Health Organization, in a move that cuts off significant taxpayer funding of the controversial group.

Details of the executive order, which was among a slew of executive actions Trump signed Monday evening in the Oval Office, were not immediately available.

“That’s a big one,” Trump said before signing the document.

As LifeNews previously reported, a branch of the WHO spends approximately 11% of its budget promoting abortion:

Read the rest: https://www.lifenews.com/2025/01/20/president-donald-trump-withdraws-america-from-pro-abortion-world-health-organization/

Trump Defunds International Planned Parenthood

 

President Donald Trump added to his excellent pro-life record today by reversing Joe Biden’s policy forcing Americans to fund International Planned Parenthood.

While on Air Force One today, President Trump signed crucial pro-life executive orders which pro-life advocates have strongly prioritized and advocated for.

During his first week in office last term, Trump signed the Mexico City policy in one of his first acts as president. The pro-life policy prohibits American tax dollars to groups that promote or provide abortions overseas. The move defunded two major abortion chains of hundreds of millions of American tax dollars. The International Planned Parenthood Federation alone estimated a $100 million loss from its budget.

The Mexico City policy, which began with President Ronald Reagan, historically has been supported by pro-life presidents and rescinded by pro-abortion presidents. Trump went further though. He not only reinstated the policy but also expanded it by increasing the number of global health assistance funds and government programs that are covered under the policy.

More: https://www.lifenews.com/2025/01/24/trump-defunds-international-planned-parenthood/

Meet the pro-life prisoners whom Trump is expected to pardon

 

From left: John Hinshaw, Jonathan Darnel, Lauren Handy, Joan Bell, and Jean Marshall are among the pro-life activists who are still in prison or awaiting prison sentences on federal charges brought by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice for protests at abortion clinics — but President-elect Donald Trump has signaled he will likely grant them presidential pardons. | Credit: Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America

By Tyler Arnold

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 21, 2024 / 14:05 pm

More than a dozen pro-life activists are still in prison or awaiting sentences on federal charges brought by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) for protests at abortion clinics — but President-elect Donald Trump has signaled he will likely grant them presidential pardons.

Under the current administration, the DOJ increased its prosecution of pro-life activists under the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The legislation was designed to increase penalties for people who obstruct access to abortion clinics or pregnancy resource centers.

During Biden’s tenure as president, the DOJ has brought FACE Act charges against more than 30 people who took part in pro-life protests at abortion clinics. Most of the charges were linked to four demonstrations: in Nashville, Tennessee; Mount Juliet, Tennessee; Washington, D.C.; and Sterling Heights, Michigan.

Some protesters were spared prison sentences, but several have been sentenced to at least two years in federal prison, with the longest being four years and nine months. Several of those who are imprisoned are senior citizens, and many are Catholic.

Read the rest: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/260611/meet-the-pro-life-prisoners-whom-trump-is-expected-to-pardon

Trump reinstates "Mexico City policy”

 Maya Goldman

US President Donald Trump speaks as he surveys recovery efforts in a neighborhood affected by Hurricane Helene in Swannanoa, North Carolina, on January 24, 2025. Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images.

President Trump will reinstate a policy cutting off U.S. global health funding to international organizations that provide legal abortion information, referrals or services, the White House wrote in a memo released on Friday. 

Why it matters: Trump will expand the so-called Mexico City policy, which critics refer to as a global gag rule. 

• Former President Ronald Reagan first enacted the policy in 1984. Each Democratic president has rescinded the rule upon entering office, and each Republican president has reinstated it. 

The gag rule has negatively affected global health care systems beyond family planning, according to a 2019 review of existing research on the policy. 

• Only a handful of studies actually examined the rule's impact on abortion rates, and those three papers concluded that the policy does not decrease abortion rates, per the scope review. 
• https://www.axios.com/authors/mgoldman