When the coronavirus pandemic besieged the U.S. economy, Washington hastily knit a safety net for small businesses called the Paycheck Protection Program. @ReeseDunklin & @MikeRezendes found the Roman Catholic Church was perhaps the biggest beneficiary.http://apne.ws/vRaqHj9
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The Catholic Church doesn’t sound like a small business. But a special exception the U.S. church helped lobby into the program’s rules made its thousands of parishes, schools and other affiliated entities eligible.pic.twitter.com/z7GEDD5Lj3
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Using that break, Catholic churches, schools, offices and other entities received at least $3 billion from the paycheck program,
@AP found. That was about as much as all faith-based recipients from the four religions with the next largest amounts.http://apne.ws/6h42srXShow this thread -
When the coronavirus forced parishes to close, losing in-person Sunday collections as a result, church leaders predicted a staggering financial blow. Instead,
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Catholic leaders said parishes and schools suffered financially when they were forced to close. Without paycheck program funds, they said, they would have had to slash jobs and curtail their charitable mission just when demand for services was spiking.http://apne.ws/FfGG6yw
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I'm starting to think the Catholic Church might not be on the up-and-up!
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Systematically covering up decades & *centuries* of child sex abuse didn't give it away?
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Did you even read the article? It says Catholic church received as much as the next 4 other religions received COMBINED. And 2x as much as the 40-!- largest charity orgs received.
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