The ridiculous thing here is that the Catholic Church has basically sewn up all the charities in this town. I want my family to volunteer, but there’s basically nowhere to do it, especially if I want to include my kid.
Food bank? Catholics.
Homeless assistance? Catholics.
Domestic violence shelter? Catholics.
Low-income school assistance charity? Catholics.
Etc.
And most of the other places where we could volunteer are run by other crazy churches. It doesn’t help that we have a monastery, a nunnery, a Catholic university, a Catholic high school and at least a half-dozen Catholic churches. And there aren’t even 100,000 people in this town.
These charities undeniably do a lot of good, but how can I ethically support them?
I have done a lot of volunteering through Catholic charities and I do think they legitimately do a lot of good work, it’s a shame they work so hard to cover for animals like this priest. Pope Francis doing his best Pope Pious XII impression recently has helped me feel validated in my decision to walk away.
I know they do good work. It’s not about the good work they do. It’s about my being able to ethically support them because of what the church in general has been guilty of (not just covering up child rape either) even though they do good work.
I assume you wouldn’t volunteer to build houses for the homeless if it turned out the organization building the houses was an arm of the KKK.
The ridiculous thing here is that the Catholic Church has basically sewn up all the charities in this town. I want my family to volunteer, but there’s basically nowhere to do it, especially if I want to include my kid.
Food bank? Catholics.
Homeless assistance? Catholics.
Domestic violence shelter? Catholics.
Low-income school assistance charity? Catholics.
Etc.
And most of the other places where we could volunteer are run by other crazy churches. It doesn’t help that we have a monastery, a nunnery, a Catholic university, a Catholic high school and at least a half-dozen Catholic churches. And there aren’t even 100,000 people in this town.
These charities undeniably do a lot of good, but how can I ethically support them?
I have done a lot of volunteering through Catholic charities and I do think they legitimately do a lot of good work, it’s a shame they work so hard to cover for animals like this priest. Pope Francis doing his best Pope Pious XII impression recently has helped me feel validated in my decision to walk away.
I know they do good work. It’s not about the good work they do. It’s about my being able to ethically support them because of what the church in general has been guilty of (not just covering up child rape either) even though they do good work.
I assume you wouldn’t volunteer to build houses for the homeless if it turned out the organization building the houses was an arm of the KKK.
I think we’re in agreement; they haven’t seen a dime or hour of my time since I walked away over a decade ago.