Dolan Calls Child Victims Act "Unjust" To Church

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40. A couple of points.

"Tax dollars" could only be money that you think that should have been taxable. They have to account for any public monies they get for running charitable programs.

They go to the government for faith-based funding for the same reason that people that don't need Medicare do so. It's money they can get for using for their purposes. You don't pass up free money. If there's anything that's un-American in 2012, that's it.


But more importantly, the money for the "cathedral" is unrelated to money in other dioceses. There are nearly 200 financially independent "Catholic Churches" in the US. We may talk about "the" Catholic Church, but when it comes to finances it's ludicrously inaccurate (and, since this has been pointed out numerous times, people either don't notice the facts, can't remember the facts, or are uninterested in the facts).

In other words, what bankrupts one leaves the others untouched. If one diocese is filthy cash-rich--unlikely, but let's talk hypothetical here--it says nothing about any other diocese. "Cash-rich" is unlikely because a lot of diocese have public works to deal with--buildings or hospitals, schools or charitable outreach. In some cases they have historic buildings that require upkeep--tear them down and get raked over the coals, use money for them instead of feeding the poor and get raked over the coals.

Note that those dioceses are entirely separate from the See. They contribute a bit to the Catholic Church's central operations, and from there some money flows to the Vatican, but that's about it.