Africa eBook Project

For just one example of what Catholics do in Africa, you may want to check http://www.matercare.org/
Of course it is just one project among many where Catholics actually do very practical things to help others. But it is easier and it feels better to just complain and criticize, doesn’t it, sir?

Hmm:

CRS achieves this by working in the areas of food security, peace building, HIV and AIDS, civil society building

It’s interesting, Christian groups have been meddling in Africa for centuries now and it just doesn’t seem to get any better.

Specially in the realm of HIV and AIDS, hey you know what other Catholic organization “helped” Africa combat HIV and AIDS?

The Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by Aids not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which HIV can pass – potentially exposing thousands of people to risk.

The church is making the claims across four continents despite a widespread scientific consensus that condoms are impermeable to HIV.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/oct/09/aids

I love it! Lies are okay if you are stopping people from doing something that you don’t want them to do. So much like Jesus!

Usually Christian aid organizations are more interested in proselytizing, spreading the “Good News” is what you call it, the helping is secondary. After all if those ignorant savages die unsaved your god will send them to a hell far worse than Africa right? So clearly saving their souls is of more importance than saving their lives.

As long as they accept Last Rites before the flies eat them, mission accomplished!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1544373/ interesting abstract about HIV.

I realize you might not actually read those reports and come to the conclusions that is pretty obvious so this will spell it out for you:

Uganda’s Aids success story challenged

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Rory Carroll, Africa correspondent
The Guardian, Thursday 23 September 2004 01.39 BST

Uganda’s dramatic progress in combating HIV/Aids has been undermined by a new survey which challenges the country’s reputation as a beacon for a continent that is being ravaged by the disease.

The non-governmental National Guidance and Empowerment Network, which surveyed 53 of the country’s 56 districts, claimed yesterday that 17% of the adult population was infected – more than four times the official rate.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/sep/23/internationalaidanddevelopment.aids

See the Soviet Union made the same sort of claims, well they went a bit further and insisted they had no HIV at all because that was a decadent Western thing.

You can’t trust bad governments to admit negative things about their nations, see North Korea for the most extreme version.

But I love how you just skip over the whole Vatican lying about condoms and letting people get AIDS bit, that doesn’t make you go hmmm just a wee bit?

Hey, while you’re ignoring horrible things that your church has done, here’s another for you to whistle past:

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/us/cardinal-authorized-payments-to-abusers.html?_r=2