Summary
The Vatican’s Caritas Internationalis condemned the Trump administration’s decision to halt USAID funding, warning it will cause millions of deaths and widespread poverty.
Cardinal Michael Czerny criticized the move as “reckless” and urged the U.S. to uphold Christian values of aid and compassion.
The cuts impact Catholic Relief Services and other humanitarian programs, jeopardizing decades of progress.
Czerny also denounced Trump’s immigration crackdown. U.S. Catholic bishops issued a rare rebuke, calling Trump’s policies on aid, immigration, and justice harmful to the vulnerable.
To be fair, it was literally just to see the art. My family is Jewish but my parents absolutely loved art and instilled a love of art in me very early on.
Fun story- my dad, much like me, had very stereotypical Jewish features- the big, hooked nose, the curly hair, that sort of thing. So right outside the Vatican, we’re looking at a souvenir stand, and the man behind the stand says to my father, in Yiddish, “what’s a nice Jewish boy like you doing in a place like this?” My dad replies back, also in Yiddish (this is all second-hand, I don’t know any Yiddish), “what’s a nice Jewish boy like you doing in a place like this?” And he said, “a man’s got to make a living!”