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LuvNewcastle

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4. Contraception is very important to

Reply to kwassa (Original post)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 07:52 PM

Sep 2015

poor communities, just as food, water, and clothing are. The people that are helped by Catholic Charities need to be given the tools to control the size of their families so that they can get to the point where they have the necessities of life and are no longer dependent upon others. Charities that don't provide birth control are doing as much to perpetuate poverty as they are to alleviating it.

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Doing good for the wrong reasons is still doing good. [View all] kwassa Sep 2015 OP

My brother ran Catholic Charities in Wash DC upaloopa Sep 2015 #1

And doing good does not exempt an organization from criticism for very very bad behavior. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #2

If the Catholic Church suddenly stopped charity work yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #5

You cannot pick and choose who is more important....that's the trouble with ignoring justice for all AuntPatsy Sep 2015 #6

There are religious leaders that are entirely sincere. kwassa Sep 2015 #18

OK, but doing good still does not exempt an organization from criticism for very very bad behavior. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #9

I agree. kwassa Sep 2015 #17

Catholic Charities in many parts of the nation want to discriminate against LGBT people in adoption. Humanist_Activist Sep 2015 #3

Outside of the services they refuse to perform, there are no strings attached. kwassa Sep 2015 #12

Contraception is very important to LuvNewcastle Sep 2015 #4

but fortunately there are other charities that provide contraceptive services. kwassa Sep 2015 #13

How much 'good' does one have to do to excuse hate and ignorance? Bluenorthwest Sep 2015 #7

I don't make any rules. kwassa Sep 2015 #16

And doing good does not immunize against criticism for doing bad. jeff47 Sep 2015 #8

I agree. kwassa Sep 2015 #14

Perhaps they're trying to mitigate the evil they've cast into the world REP Sep 2015 #10

No. It is about Catholic social teaching. kwassa Sep 2015 #15

I worked for several years in the Catholic LiberalElite Sep 2015 #11