In apparent anticipation of the June 15 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States that the 1964 Civil Rights Act extends anti-discrimination protections to homosexuals and transgenders, an anonymous plaintiff going by John Doe (a man in a same-sex “marriage”), filed a lawsuit on Friday, June 12, against Catholic Relief Services for sexual discrimination and “breach of contract, detrimental reliance, and negligent misrepresentation.” In the lawsuit, Doe accuses Catholic Relief Services … [Read more...]
Prominent Catholics Call on Congress to Investigate Catholic Relief Services
Join Dr. Alan Keyes, Dr. Deal Hudson, Hon. Bob Marshall, and many other prominent Catholics to call upon Congress to investigate Catholic Relief Services (CRS)! Today, we launched a White House Petition asking Congress to investigate CRS for violating the Mexico City Policy, and we're asking you to sign and forward this important petition to everyone you know! As you already know, we've been publishing portions of a report detailing what we found through a year-long investigation of CRS … [Read more...]
The Things That are Caesars’
Regardless of what one thinks about the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic there is no doubt that people are suffering. On one hand you have those who are fighting the illness itself, and on the other are those impacted economically and emotionally through lost jobs and a depressed market. This impact is even worse for those already impoverished and those in less developed countries. The Church has always been on the front lines providing relief to those impacted by disaster through the ministries … [Read more...]
Catholic Relief Services Used/Promoted Pornographic, Contraception-Promoting Curriculums
For the last two months, we have been publishing segments of a year long investigation of Catholic Relief Services projects. We showed documents produced by CRS for the 4Children project included the promotion of condoms. We proved that CRS was the custodian of a website that included abortion and contraception promoting documents. We proved that in two CRS-led projects, CRS created local networks that referred young girls to abortion and contraception promoting organizations for sexual and … [Read more...]
Summary of Catholic Relief Services Reports from 2020
Since the beginning of March, the Lepanto Institute has been publishing segments of a highly detailed report which is the result of a year-long investigation into CRS projects in Africa. This page is intended to provide a simple and easy-to-use summary of those investigations with links to each segment. These individual reports are all connected to CRS projects related to Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) which are funded by both USAID and PEPFAR, two of the largest contraception … [Read more...]