Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Catholic Bishops Received $3 Billion in State COVID-Cash for Shutting Down Churches

By David Martin 

Filthy lucre apparently had much to do with the closing of Catholic Churches in March 2020. It's not that COVID-19 necessitated the closure of churches thus forcing dioceses to turn to the state for financial aid, but that the state paid the dioceses to ensure their compliance with state orders to close the churches. According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Catholic Bishops received over $3 billion in such "financial aid." 

"Overall, the nation’s nearly 200 dioceses, where bishops and cardinals govern, and other Catholic institutions received at least $3 billion,” AP reported on February 3. “That makes the Roman Catholic Church perhaps the biggest beneficiary of the paycheck program, according to AP’s analysis of data the U.S. Small Business Administration released." https://apnews.com/article/catholic-church-get-aid-investigation-39a404f55c82fea84902cd16f04e37b2 

The truth is that the U.S. bishops closed the churches to make the almighty state happy, which had nothing to do with COVID-19. The socialist deep-state was hinging on these closures for success in launching nationwide riots and lockdowns last spring.   

It's a simple spiritual 2+2. The enemy plan was to cut off needed grace from the Sacrifice of the Mass while cranking up nationwide satanic black masses to fuel their effort, something the bishops should have immediately recognized, but because the bishops are no longer spiritual but are now absorbed in the Marxist politics of "immigration" and "Black Lives Matter," they turned their back on the flock and empowered the state to bully the Church, done of course under the guise of public health and safety.  

Bishop Schneider and other responsible prelates made it clear last spring that clergy were under no obligation to heed episcopal/state orders to close churches and suspend Masses. President Trump himself issued a statement on December 28 in which Christian America was encouraged to follow the example of St. Thomas Becket in preferring to die for the Faith before allowing the state to infringe on the Church, yet churches are still in restricted mode because bishops continue to heed state advice to impose restrictions on churches. It seems the bishops can't act fast enough to please these elite masters while divine rules, tradition, and commandments are thrown out the window. They've become like the hypocrites in Christ's time, touting their hand-washing and "sanitary" procedures and adopting ridiculous "traditions of men" while the work of God is ignored!  

What we are witnessing is a virus of disinformation that has all but deranged the public mindset and turned society and church into a political insane asylum. Deep-state socialists have simply used COVID as a political tool to lock down on liberty and launch their "Great Reset.” 

The best cure for this madness is to ignore the COVID fuss and go back to being normal. When America can finally drop the masks and distancing and ignore socialists like Newsom, Cuomo, and Fauci, our cure will be complete. 

30 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amen! Magnificent summary of the disgusting response of the novus ordo to the scamdemic.

Unknown said...

These Bishops are going to have to answer to God for selling out the churches and depriving the good Catholics of the Sacraments!
DEC

Constantine said...

The money was used to fund Socialist Workers and "organize" community action" and "enpowerment" of mentally and emotionally unstable and morally peripheried. This is Bergoglio's base of support.

M. Prodigal said...

Other than every other pew, my parish is normal and has been since last spring. It is the only one in this part of the state not requiring registering, limiting, mask wearing, etc. No outbreaks or illness either. And knowing some people in traditional Latin Mass parishes that have NO restrictions at all--and also no outbreaks and no known illnesses. Churches never needed to close and even the ridiculous 10 people or 25% capacity were uncalled for. Still--many live in fear and have not had the sacraments in almost a year or they are simply denied them.

Tancred said...

Traitors.

JBQ said...

Malachi Martin wrote that the message of the Third Secret was consistent with the disappearance of the geographical Church governing system. This means that the Church will no longer be ruled by Archbishops over their archdiocese with suffragan minor dioceses linked with them. For instance, the Archdiocese of Saint Louis is the major geographical entity (metropolitan) for the Church in Missouri. There are also three suffragan dioceses as well: Jefferson City, Springfield, and Kansas City.----A socialist model is in the works and will evolve in time. It all has to do with Church authority and links to Jesus the Christ and his selection of His Apostles. In radical circles in the Church again according to Malachi Martin, Jesus is viewed as not being God and merely a prophet in a line of prophets. This means that Christ did not believe in inclusion and diversity. In order for the new world order to finalize its plans, belief in the Messiah must be terminated. That is the goal of the Masons.

Tancred said...

The Masons want to destroy the entirety of Catholic belief and authority.

Kristi said...

Meanwhile, our souls suffered!!

Constantine said...

I think what our world and society is going though, its very similar when we look at the words of " My Sweet Lord". The song starts with many repetions of "my sweet lord" and how we love him. But at an in instant in the middle, it gets substituted with "Hari Krishna", and we realized all this time, thinking it meant Christ, it turns out it means an Indian Hindu Deity.
These Vatican II clergy leave doctrine vague, and the funding vague enough to have legitimate charity replaced with big business globalist or leftist-approved philanthropy.

commenter said...

I suspect the truth is more prosaic. The money will have been used to pay furloughed workers

Anonymous said...

5:14am

Nice thought that the money was given to furloughed workers, but in this diocese the employees were fired, not furloughed. They received nothing.

commenter said...

I am sorry to hear that. In my country, this sort of grant was given for well-defined purposes, so could not be used for the sort of things described by "Constantine".

A Catholic in the UK.

Henk Botha said...
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Jim Hoffnung said...

Bill Hoffnung said...
This is another example of misinformation and a distortion of facts. The money received by social outreach agencies run by the Catholic Church is part of a national $349 billion 'payroll support' initiative under the Federal CARES Act.
Martin can't lie straight in bed. Here's more deliberately skewed re-write of a simple report:

A Feb. 4 Associated Press article reported that Catholic institutions throughout the country received at least $3 billion in aid from the Payroll Protection Program, a core component of the CARES Act passed by Congress in March 2020. The program provided $349 billion in payroll support.

The bishops don't get a cracker out of this. It's working women and men employed by the Church who will benefit and be able to feed their children. Get the facts straight.

Anonymous said...

12:17pm

Get YOUR facts straight.
In this Diocese (U.S.), the workers were fired, without compensation.

Anonymous said...

Interesting, according to the website Complicit Clergy the novus ordo has paid out 4 billion dollars to 20,100 victims of abuse in 25 states and 25 Doceses and now thanks to the Scamdemic federal tax payers have bailed out the novus ordo with at least 3 billion perhaps 4 billion in subsidies. If true American tax payers have paid for all the total sex abuse payments and lawyer fees against the Catholic church for the sexual abuse of children.

Tom Kirton said...

Said Mr Martin:
"The best cure for this madness is to ignore the COVID fuss and go back to being normal. When America can finally drop the masks and distancing and ignore socialists like Newsom, Cuomo, and Fauci, our cure will be complete."

No, our cure will be complete when ideologically driven morons like yourself finally wake up to yourselves, shut up and retire to your sheltered workshops.

Anonymous said...

Dear Tom Kirton

Go back into the closet and cover your face with ten Fauci masks YOU COMMIE GLOBOHOMO MORON!

Tom Kirton said...

Anon 6:35,
Ask Tancred about what it's like to be near death from COVID-19. It would be an education for you.

Anonymous said...

Tom Kirton,
People die every single day from something and often it is a horrible death. You do not destroy lives and futures because of it. The response to this thing has been a catastrophe and the results of the stupidity so predictable.

Tom Kirton said...

It is stupidity and denial such as yours that is 'so predictable.' The QAnon mob blindly followed their leader, Trump, by dumbing down COVID-19 for the past year calling it WuFlu.
Ask Tancred and look at the CDC daily stats. Nearly 500k dead now!

susan said...

Hey moron....if you knew anything as much as you know your own private parts, you'd know that Tancred would back up anon 7:01 COMPLETELY....in fact he wrote an entire post saying it, you stinkin', (um....how did our good anon phrase it??)...COMMIE GLOBOHOMO MORON!
feybriel...such a putz....and a total stalking loser....you really do have a sick psychosexual obsession with Tancred and all things Tancred. Why don't you get an actual life.

Tom Kirton said...

Get help!

susan said...

Nice retort.

putz

Tancred said...

Get help, Gaybriel.

Tancred said...

Flu is almost down to 0 and hospitals are exaggerating the Covid numbers because they get kickbacks. The whole thing is a scam.

Anonymous said...

And keeping all Americans under Covid house arrest keeps the streets empty for Antifa and BLM demonstrations and locks the doors of our churches.

Tom Kirton said...
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Anonymous said...

For all the Democrat Nu Church trolls who eagerly swallow all the Covid propaganda of the MSM, a new study shows the CDC inflated Covid deaths "The nation's federal health protection agency "knowingly altered rules for reporting cause of death in the presence of comorbidity exclusively for COVID-19" and breached "several federal laws that ensure data accuracy and integrity," the study noted." The MSM species of liars known as fact checkers who will try to debunk this new study didn't exist until the truth started coming out before the internet they were called CENSORS.

MaryP said...

The fact is that the employees would not need money had the Churches not been closed. So, yes, the money is payoff for closing/loss of contributions/furloughs. If employees are fired, all the more money for those left.