At the beginning of Lent, the Lepanto Institute published an article titled “Fighting Poverty by Eliminating Children,” spotlighting some of Catholic Relief Services’ more egregious grants and partnerships. In re-examining CRS’s dealings, it was necessary to re-visit the false rhetoric CRS has employed, attempting to justify what it is doing. Shortly after publishing this article, Archbishop Coakley, CRS’s chairman, sent a letter to all bishops in the country. In the opening line of this letter, … [Read more...]
Salesian Missions, CRS Defend Evil Program
Salesian Missions has called our reports a “malicious attack” that contain “absurd information.” One would not see from reading this statement that we tried to reach out to them six days before releasing our report to try to start a conversation about our findings before going public; and that all of the information presented – which we agree is absurd, or worse – was taken from their own and their partners’ documents. In fact, the Life Choices documents in question were removed from the … [Read more...]