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6 thoughts on “Sitting on billions, Catholic dioceses amassed taxpayer aid

  1. This article is very offensive to many Catholics. This is simply religious bigotry. Upsetting that IBJ runs it. Always fashionable to attack Catholics because of our moral standards regarding the unborn, and marriage and family. Why is the Catholic Church being targeted? Much like the “sexual abuse scandal”… why are there not articles about protestant churches, or synagogues or big corporations, etc. Here is a rebuttal from the Catholic League, which fights such defamation and bigotry.

    https://www.catholicleague.org/ap-upset-that-catholic-church-got-ppp-funds/

  2. Totally agree, Steve M. It is offensive and who is to judge the Catholic Church for utilizing this program to get through the pandemic? Just because they were sitting on reserves doesn’t mean they shouldn’t try to bolster them so that when they come out of the pandemic they are in a better position to continue their mission. The Church does a million more good things than the tiny amount of bad things that the mainstream media lives to torture them about. Shame on the IBJ for joining in on this crap.

  3. I’m very upset that the Indianapolis Business Journal has fallen in line with main-stream media by running this Associated Press article which is nothing more than persecution and religious bigotry against the Catholic Church. Why is the Catholic Church being targeted once again — the very Church that is responsible for founding the very first schools and hospitals in this country. Why did you not devote the resources to add anything about the Archdiocese of Indianapolis? Where is the article about Joel Osteen (billionaire) and the millions his church received? What about all of the other Churches in the U.S.??? Once again, the Catholic Church has become an easy target because of our size and our organizational structure. If you were providing REAL journalism, you would have included a chart with all of the mainstream churches and what each received nationwide. Shame on you IBJ.

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