Member Submission: Tampa and Easter Week
Recently the city of Tampa, in partnership with Catholic Charities, has built a camp for homeless people. The concern is that the homeless people may not have access to a facility where they can wash their hands frequently and have access to hand sanitizer.
The camp will hold 100 homeless people, providing mobile showers, mobile laundromat, and portable toilets. They will get fed three meals a day and any needed medical treatment.
Sex offenders need not apply.
“The Catholic Charities’ mission is to serve those most vulnerable with dignity and compassion during their most vulnerable time,” said Margaret Rogers, Catholic Charities’ Executive Director. “While everyone is ordered to stay at home and be safe, we realize that there’s a population that doesn’t have a home to go to.”
“For I was hungry and you gave me food… you gave me drink… you welcomed me… you clothed me…and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.”
I’m saddened that Catholic charities can exclude any group of people. What moral or church teaching allows you to exclude even the least of these people?
“Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.”
I pray that this week, the holiest week for Christians, is a week that Christians will do as Jesus would do. FORGIVE. After all, isn’t forgiveness the reason Jesus died on the cross?
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Terrible!!!! What about their sexual predatory recidivist priests? Assuming they will be handing out the hand sanitizer? The news should ask that question?
It is a shame that the Catholic Church, who hid all of those pedophilic priests for years (see the movie SPOTLIGHT) has turned its’ back on a select few of the population…I guess that they do not forgive everybody.
I’ve become an atheist but I don’t force people to stop believing in whatever it is they want to believe in regards to religion. However, all the prayers in the world are not going to change people from the “comfort” they were given by the enactment of a sex offense registry. The holiest of holy believers will turn their backs on people with sexual offenses (of any kind) because they’ll try to use that other passage from the bible (I forget where it is) about the harm of children. We all know that not every offense of a sexual nature is against a child or even an actual victim (public urination, two consenting age people getting caught in public), but the sheep (the people) have been brainwashed by propaganda such as Law & Order: SVU and the news media.
I would suggest sending a professional sounding email to these people and ask them if any of them are at an age to remember a time BEFORE the registry. BEFORE any type of sexual misconduct of a person was blown out of proportion as it is today. And ask them what they would have done or had done back then for homeless people in the 1980’s or 70’s or 60’s when there were still sexual crimes being committed and people living their lives with a sex conviction but we’re not blown up into the fear mongering of today.
I guarantee they won’t have a decent, straight answer. They’ll beat around the bush to answer… IF they answer.
Everyone who is able should share this on Facebook.
Shame on Catholic Charities.. Jesus is not looking kindly on you today for this behavior. Jesus helped everyone without judgement. What gives this organization the right to judge others and act so harshly when humans are in need?
Disillusioned as as a Catholic!
Heartbroken. I thought so much more highly of the Catholic Church. He who lives in glass houses should not throw stones.
You have to love the hypocrisy of religion!
I don’t even think they get the irony of the Catholic church turning away “sex offenders” when their organization has always been and still is riddled with child molesters. Pathetic
Happy Easter!
Another injustice brought to us by an organization that has corruptly covered up sex crimes against children who were violated by trusted members of the Catholic Church. Shame, shame, shame!