Catholic Relief Services responds to criticism over HIV document, employees
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Catholic Relief Services has announced revisions to an HIV prevention document because of its “inappropriate information” about condoms and their use.
“Despite the mistakes, at no point did CRS purchase or distribute condoms. We are revising the document to ensure that it meets our standards as approved by the USCCB,” Michael Hill, a senior writer with the relief agency, told CNA Sept. 5.
Hill said the 179-page document was written in 2009 by outside consultants for a Vietnam program that aimed to halt the spread of HIV among intravenous drug users.
“CRS staff prescribed revisions to the document that were not carried out by the external consultant in the final, posted document,” he said. This meant that five sentences in the document referred to condom use among couples where one person is HIV positive and the other is HIV negative.
The agency announced the revisions in Aug. 31 in response to a report from LifeSite News.
The relief agency, which is overseen by the U.S. bishops, has 5,000 employees working to help more than 100 million people across the world address poverty, hunger, drought, disease and other emergencies.
LifeSite News has also reported on several of the agency’s employees who have records of past employment with agencies that support legal abortion or distribute abortion drugs and condoms.
One reported case also involves an employee’s assault on pro-life demonstrators. [More]
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When you follow the link and read all the way to the end, they claim they consulted a bioethicist. What it doesn’t say is that the bioethicist recommended AGAINST the funding of CARE because of the scandal it would cause — yet they did it anyway. I did not realize that so many of their employees are not Catholic. It is difficult enough to find Catholics that truly understand the Church’s teachings and make a concerted effort to live by them — at least we speak the same religious language. But when you infiltrate your organization with people who are not Catholic and who are willing to sign on to our values in order to get a job, but who really cannot defend these values because they are so foreign to their world view, then you are in danger of morphing into a Catholic agency that is Catholic in name only. That has already happened to our Catholic hospitals and universities. To have it happen to the bishops’ own relief organization is appalling.