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Vatican Complains After USAID Stops Funding Catholic Charity Plagued by Fraud, Sex Abuse, by Jules Gomes – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Caritas Internationalis Caritas Secretary General Alistair Dutton with Cardinal Michael Czerny. (Caritas Internationalis)

By Jules Gomes, The Stream, February 12, 2025

Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral.

 

Caritas Internationalis struggles to recover reputation after €61 million embezzled from its Luxembourg branch

The Vatican’s largest social justice network is complaining that the Trump administration’s cuts to its funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will plunge millions into poverty and even death.

Caritas Internationalis, a charity which was forced to gut over 60 projects and sack 100 staff after it was hit by a €61million ($67 million) fraud scandal in July 2024, is overseen by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development headed by Cardinal Michael Czerny. It is comprised of 162 member organizations.

With an annual budget of more than $40 billion, Caritas is heavily invested in leftwing political activism, climate change, and anti-Israel lobbying, and has been associated with the World Social Forum — a pro-abortion, pro-LGBT body engaged in anticapitalist activism. …

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