HELPING HAITI

The Missionaries of the Poor are on the frontline everyday in Haiti, providing the people with the essentials- food, clothes, education and most importantly love. If you desire to help Haiti in this time of dire and overwhelming need, you may do so through the M.O.P. here: HELP


*UPDATE*
FROM M.O.P.
15 January 2010

Dear Friends,

The catastrophe in Haiti caused us to reach out and save the lives of hundreds of thousands who are homeless and have children and relatives who are without anything. Many people have lost hope in Haiti and are turning to the second big capital city Cap-Haitian where our brothers are for refuge. Our brothers have taken them in. Our Community Chapel is now a refugee center and the Asile Communal Center for homeless and destitute adults as well as our Bethlehem Center for disabled children have been expanded to take in temporary refugees. Brother Henry is receiving people from the Hospitals, and from trucks and buses coming from Port au Prince to the Missionaries of the Poor to receive shelter. Jesuit priests from the Dominican Republic and others are now helping the brothers in this refugee work.

Our Brother John Presca, MOP has lost his sister in the earthquake. Brother Loubert, MOP has lost his aunt and brother Pierre Charles' entire family is missing. All three are our Haitian Brothers.

We need all the support you can offer specially with basic food items like rice, corn meal, flour, sugar beans and clean water. Home supplies like beds, bed linens, clothes, towels, etc. are also greatly needed.

In His service,

Rev. Fr. Richard Ho Lung, MOP
Superior General

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Pope's Rep. in Haiti Eye-Witness

Photos of the earthquake (The Big Picture)

Archbishop Dies in Quake

CNS Report

Word from the Brothers in Haiti

Christmas in Haiti with the MOP

Ah Yes...'Catholic' Charities!

Fresh from battle with the inconsistencies of Canadian Catholic charity, Development and Peace, Catholics may feel weary and discouraged. I do. Everywhere we turn, news breaks of one or another Catholic charity or institution supporting distinctly un-Christian endeavors.

American Life League

Three of the top lay Catholic organizations have divorced themselves from Catholic teaching by supporting the Obama health-care plan, which would foster a culture of mandatory abortion coverage, contraceptive services, and permissive sex education, euthanasia and eugenics.

Catholic Charities USA, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Catholic Health Association are joining together to push the current version of the plan through Congress.

"There is no social justice in rationing charity," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. "Millions of taxpayers will be forced to subsidize abortion, contraception, euthanasia and bureaucratic denial of health care to the poorest of the poor."

Many Catholics are used to trusting these institutions as being ACTUALLY charitable, full of the substance of God's love, along the lines of Pope Benedict's latest encyclical. If only those making decisions for Catholic charities WOULD read 'Caritas Veritate' , and take its core message to heart. The entire fullness of God's vision is our goal...not to be traded off time and time again for temporary relief in one area or another.

THE WHOLE TRUTH . Working to uphold the whole truth, we can TRUST GOD to ameliorate our temporal sufferings in a way that benefits us eternally.

ETERNITY. Something Catholics believe in, and Catholic institutions should have in their sights.


(h/t Catholic Fire)