Bishops have openly welcomed Biden to receive Holy Communion, in spite of Canon 915 stating Catholics who “obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.” It will be of little surprise if Biden goes-down in history as America’s most radical anti-Catholic president.
For those who continue to be astonished by our shepherds’ silence, we may have discovered the answer. Complicit Clergy just completed updating its previous analysis on migration-related federal funding awarded to Catholic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to include all four years of the Biden administration.
The project involved extracting federal immigration-related transactions from USAspending.gov for the 16 year period between 2009 to 2024. We reviewed all the organizations receiving immigration-related federal assistance, flagging those NGOs affiliated with the Catholic Church. We then determined in which Catholic diocese each of these organization reside. Finally, we loaded this data into Tableau, a software system that helps people explore data insights through intuitive visualizations.
People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but in this case, its worth BILLIONS. The Biden administration granted Catholic NGOs nearly $2.9 billion in immigration-related funding over the past four years. That’s more than TRIPLE the level of funding under Trump’s first administration and nearly DOUBLE the amount awarded under the Obama administration over the course of EIGHT YEARS!
Since 2009, Catholic NGOs have pocketed $5.2 BILLION of our hard-earned tax dollars over a 16 year period by providing immigration-related services to the federal government. What is truly astounding is that over half this amount was awarded in just the past four years! Please keep in mind that this $5.2 billion figure is likely largely understated due to the facts:
- our analysis only includes federal programs that are clearly associated with immigration – NGOs are likely using funds from non-immigration related programs to serve the migrant community;
- our analysis does not include state-funded programs, such as the money being provided to Catholic university Seton Hall which offers legal services to illegal aliens;
- our analysis does not include non-Catholic organizations – we saw evidence of state agencies sharing their funding with Catholic NGOs without specifically making a subaward to these organizations;
- while we did our best to include all Catholic NGOs in our analysis, we undoubtedly missed some Catholic organizations which lack Catholic identifying characteristics in their names.
Perhaps its just a coincidence, but we learned just last week that the U.S. Catholic Church has paid-out over $5 BILLION to settle the financial costs of the sex-abuse scandal, not including the millions of dollars they have spend in legal fees trying to defend themselves. This amounts to over $10 BILLION that our bishops have extracted from the our pockets… and this BEFORE they appeal for more in Sunday collections!
It should come as no surprise that Catholic Charities has been the top recipient of this federal funding, with their network of NGOs harvesting more than $2.6 BILLION of federal funding for immigration-related services. We should also not be surprised to learn that the illustrious United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) came in second place, reaping nearly $1.6 BILLION.
It is fascinating to note how these billions of dollars have been geographically distributed across the United States. In the chart below, we reveal how this funding has been funneled to organizations based upon the dioceses in which they reside. To be clear, these figures not only include monies going directly to the dioceses, but any Catholic organizations that reside within the diocese’s geographical boundaries.
