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By Michael Hichborn, LifeSite News, (Complicit Clergy), January 27, 2025
The average budget for the US bishops’ pro-life office is just around $2 million, compared to $134 million in 2023 for ‘migration and refugee services.’ Even worse, the USCCB is giving parishioners’ money to pro-abortion groups through its Catholic Campaign for Human Development and Catholic Relief Services.
63 million. It’s a number so large the human mind can scarcely comprehend what it means. If we were to stack 63 million $1 bills, the stack would be about 2,718 feet high, which is just one foot higher than the tallest building in the world – the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. 63 million miles is the distance from Earth to Mars during its closest approach. Out of 197 countries in the world, 174 have populations of less than 63 million.
And yet, since 1973, the United States alone has murdered 63 million people through decriminalized abortion. Joseph Stalin, the tyrannical, murderous dictator of Communist Russia, is oft remembered for having said, “The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic,” but despite the number on a ledger sheet or the various ways in which one attempts to comprehend the deaths of millions, one thing remains: every single one of those millions is a unique, unrepeatable, and immortal soul. Every. Single. One.
To wrap one’s mind around the murder of 63 million babies, all that is needed is to assume the point of view of each one. Each of those babies was once in a warm, safe, and nurturing environment, and then each was either killed with chemicals or systematically pulled apart.
But here’s another way of looking at the number 63 million – it’s about 27 times more in dollars than the budget of the pro-life office of the USCCB. Here’s what I mean – the pro-life activities office of the USCCB had a budget of approximately $2.3 million in 2017. To put that into perspective, the USCCB’s office of migration and refugee services had a budget that same year of $82 million; $76.4 million of which came from the federal government.