NOTE: To download a PDF version of this report, please click here.St. Paul Youth ServicesSt. Paul Youth Services (SPYS) received its first-ever grant from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) in FY 2020-2021. The grant was for $50,000.SPYS's website indicates that it was established 45 years ago, as a joint project of the City of Saint Paul and the Saint Paul Police Department. It is a youth program ostensibly designed to keep kids in school and out of prison. … [Read more...]
Food For the Poor
UPDATE (09.13.2022): As of this date, 13 September 2022, Food for the Poor is NO LONGER on the "Not Safe" list. Following a very fruitful conversation with a senior executive vice president of Food for the Poor, the Lepanto Institute has confirmed that FFtP no longer has any association with the Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP). Furthermore, FFtP followed through on a promise to investigate its relationship with Jamaica Aids Support for Life (JASL) and based upon our … [Read more...]
Catholic Relief Services to Help Implement Campaign Centered on Spreading Contraception in Rwanda
On April 26, several Rwandan government agencies, including the Ministry of Health officially launched a three-year initiative called the Baho Neza Integrated Health Campaign to encourage the use and distribution of contraception. Catholic Relief Services is identified as one of the implementing partners on this campaign.The central focus of the Baho Neza Campaign is the promotion, distribution, and provision of “family planning” and “family planning services” for the sake of increasing the … [Read more...]
USCCB Gives $240,000 to Group Promoting Planned Parenthood, Prostitution, LGBTs
Since 2010, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has made several large financial contributions to an organization in San Francisco that is actively promoting all manner of immorality. Through grants from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), which is an official project of the USCCB, the Coalition on Homelessness has received $240,000 in four grants: $40,000 for 2010-2011; $50,000 for 2014-2015; $75,000 for 2015-2016; and $75,000 for 2016-2017, the last … [Read more...]
Salesian Missions Promote Masturbation, Contraception
The Lepanto Institute was recently asked by a supporter if the Salesian Missions was a "safe charity" to donate to. Not knowing the answer, Lepanto Institute conducted an investigation of the Salesian Missions' program called "Life Choices," and discovered that this program is quite similar to just about anything Planned Parenthood would publish. The program recommends masturbation, encourages condom use, employs emotionally dangerous "role-play" exercises, promotes contraception (including … [Read more...]