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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FAC?
Anyone?
Michael is crying out for help.
Shall we lend him a deaf ear?
I will alert our outreach committee to see what we can do for Michael. Also, I recommend calling our phone number and leaving a message directly for outreach.
Michael wants help getting out of Volusia, but if he tells us where he wants to go, perhaps someone in that area can offer some guidance or suggestions. Since he’s on probation, he will also have to transfer his probation to another County. That will require a legal process that his PD can hopefully help him with. Otherwise he will require a private attorney.
Transferring probation shouldn’t require an attorney at all. I transferred from one county in CT to another with only the probation office doing the file transfer after the receiving county approved the apartment I was moving into at the time.
I’m in Volusia county and I want out of here. I tried 2 time’s to have my probation transferred to Tallahassee FL and both times DENIED
Probation is not easy to transfer unless you have family
Thank you FAC!
I just stumbled upon something this Executive Director Margaret Rogers of the Catholic Charities sometime ago allegations were made that she made unwanted sexual favors to one of her employees.
Anybody out there know anything about this?
https://www.tampabay.com/news/religion/catholic-charities-director-accused-of-sexual-harrassment-20190125/
Who should I contact immediately? Thank you
I survived Catholicism in my youth and left the church as soon as I began to approach the age of reason.
I do believe in a loving and forgiving God. He has been quite active in my life.
I pray for His forgiveness for all Catholics and other Christians who claim a direct line to/from God and persecute SO and other “undesirables.”
I agree “Hail Mary full of grace” There are probably thousands of older men dating young women under the age of 18. Some even have children and get married after there leagal age!. It might not be right by Law. But it does happen!. And when tahey get married and a law person such as police probably doesn’t think much of it in most cases anyway. It usually goes without being noticed because thats just the way life goes unless they get caught with there pants down. Thats just the way it is. The Romeo and Juliet is foreal, dont matter the age if you dont get caught. But it still doesn’t make it right. Its the “LAW”…
I never argued that it cannot be illegal if the age of consent is not reached. But it should not be something that requires registration since the registry was brought about due to a psychopath who had a thing for prepubescent children and then killed the girl as if the harm he already did to her wasn’t enough.
But relationships similar to what Elvis and Priscilla had should NOT be registerable offenses. Offense – yes. Registration- no!
They probably don’t know there is a convicted arm robber or muderer in the encampment because they didnt check. But sor is a different situation!!. ” NOT SO”….
Pretty bad the Church uses an ambiguous list when a good amount on here are not a threat to anyone and if we confessed our “crime” at confession would only get a couple our fathers, hail Mary’s. That goes to show you the punishment of being on the list church doesn’t know if you spend your day raising a family or seeking kids to at church to rape and murder but your paying for what you haven’t been found to be retroactively. You were never told this would happen. There was no list and it wasn’t a big deal back then. I really don’t know any buddies that did the same thing I did and didn’t get caught that are still dating 9th graders in their 40s. I don’t even know buddies that went to college and we’re still associating with 9th- 10th graders. Come on that’s crazy. I miss Romeo and Juliet buy a couple months and my “victim” was 3 weeks of being legal age. The only way she was a victim is what the state did to her.
And that’s exactly NOT the reason for the registry. People with cases like yours should not have to be registered. Period.
@ Maestro:
NOBODY should have to be registered. Period. There shouldn’t even be a registry. Period. The registry would not have done one single thing to prevent the deaths of Lisa French, Jacob Wetterling, Megan Kanka, Adam Walsh or any other victim of sexual abuse. Nor will it prevent a future one.
Even the “worst of the worst” that some argue should be registered overlooks that there will always be more and better indications of potential re-offending than the title of the statute for which they were convicted.
As to the statement: “What moral or Church teaching allows you to exclude even the least of these people.”, the same Cgurch/Religion that allowed child molestation and covered it up for years! The Bible actually tells you to test various religions. They have failed, and continue to fail, by their own actions and inactions!