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By Janet E. Smith, LifeSiteNews, Mar 8, 2025
It’s problematic that the U.S. government through USAID has given over a $ 1 billion to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its affiliates to settle refugees and immigrants when the Church has a scandalous history of placing predator priests among migrants and the handicapped and of covering up abuse that has occurred among them.
(LifeSiteNews) — Rachel Mastorgiacomo was ritually raped by then-Fr. Jacob Bertrand, who pleaded guilty to and was convicted of such a heinous act. Wiesław Walawender came from Poland to study for the priesthood here – he was abused in three different dioceses and witnessed a six-year-old with semen all over his face after a sexually abusive encounter with a priest. The Catholic Church served them horribly. Cardinal Robert McElroy, soon to be archbishop of Washington, D.C., covered up for Bertrand. Bishops and seminary personnel disbelieved and punished Walawender when he reported his abusers, among them Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
People who know their stories or the hundreds and thousands of similar ones have long thought it extremely problematic that the U.S. government through USAID has given over a billion dollars to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its affiliates to settle refugees and immigrants. The Church has a scandalous history of placing predator priests among migrants and the handicapped and of covering up abuse that has occurred among them. …
