The Trump administration has reportedly canceled an $11 million contract with the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami, which offers shelter and care to migrant children entering the United States alone.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has paid Catholic Charities for numerous years to house immigrant children entering the U.S. without adult supervision. The federal government contacted the charity about the cancellation in late March, according to The Miami Herald.

The abrupt severing of the White House’s long-term support to the nonprofit comes amid an ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV. Responding to Leo’s repeated criticism of the Iran war, Trump bashed the pope on Sunday in a social media post in which he called him “weak” on crime and “terrible” for foreign policy, urging him to “get his act together as Pope.”

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    So I’m all for the Catholic church not getting tax payers money. But let’s be real 11 million to the Catholic church is like me accidentally losing 20 bucks.

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      You realize the church isn’t getting the money, the church is using the money

      to house immigrant children entering the U.S. without adult supervision

      You’re not hurting the church when you no longer let them use your money to help care for the needy, you’re only hurting those needy

      Don’t let your hatred of organized religion distract who this hurts

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        Although I agree with you there are some fundamental issues here.

        First: the Catholic Church does not require taxpayer funding to perform charitable or humanitarian work. When it participates in federal refugee resettlement, it is operating as a contracted service provider, not a financially dependent institution. The dependency narrative is therefore misleading.

        Second: embedding a religious organization inside state-funded humanitarian logistics creates an inherent conflict of roles. The government is outsourcing policy execution; the Church is executing civic functions under spiritual identity. That overlap guarantees recurring tension over accountability, neutrality, and influence.

        Third: policy reversals under the Trump administration altered refugee intake levels and associated funding flows. Whether one interprets that as governance reform or political disruption, the result is the same: humanitarian delivery systems become unstable when they are tightly coupled to shifting political priorities.

        Fourth: the moral inconsistency runs in both directions. It is problematic to weaponize funding decisions as leverage against service providers. It is equally problematic to design humanitarian systems that depend on politically contingent funding streams in the first place.

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    “Support me politically, or I will do stuff that will hurt the kids living in my own country” was Putin’s thing back in 2012.

    This regime brought to you by the “Culture Of Life ™.”

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    Tax them, Donald! That’ll teach them a lesson! In fact, tax all religions so the rest of them know not to challenge you!

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      A shame that a whole country wants their intentions to be decided by a narcissist.

      I’m curious if there’s historical record of anyone or especially a leader being as petty as this short fingered vulgarian.

      I’d like to think anywhere before say 1900s they’d have dealt with such an issue in a way relevant to the times. But we have stories of Nero and Caligula…is Trump going to join their ranks in history? I do hope so, but as a footnote, the worst thing for him is to be forgotten when he’s done.

      At this point, beyond all political crap, the proper stand is to just ignore the orange infant. I thought otherwise before, how to ignore a driving force in the world? Well if every other country stops acknowledging him, he’ll probably have a stroke or something. Seriously let’s all make an ignore Trump day/month and everyone including countries just don’t acknowledge he’s there. At his age that may least overcome one issue. Plus the rage posts will be great for the books, history and psychology.

      Seriously who lets someone like that get into power? He’s a petulant child and should be treated as such but somehow he’s been treated with kid gloves cause he’s rich.

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        The “ignore” tactic might work on an anonymous internet troll, it’s impossible for the president of the US. Even if he acts like an internet troll.

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        I second that idea. Lets make June Ignore the Orange Shit-stain month since his birthday is in June. Maybe he’ll stroke-out out of pure rage.

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    Add “Petty Bitch” to the list of the Orange Child Rapist titles

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      He’s had the Petty Bitch title for most of his life, though.

      It’s just not enough for him to rape children anymore. When Donald Trump rapes a child, he only hurts that one child. By taking millions from a charity that helps children, Donald Trump has found one more way to ruin many children’s lives all at once.

      Trump seems like a person who heard that old meme about “How many children could you defeat?” and he ran with it.

      Stopping food programs for children. Bombing elementary schools. Raping children. Caging children and separating them from their families. Deporting children despite their being US Citizens.

      Trump is working from every angle to harm as many children as possible.

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        I don’t think it’s actually about children. I think it just happens that children are the most vulnerable demographic so it feels extra good to permanently damage them with impunity.

        As with everything trump, the cruelty is the point.

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    This guy is such a loser. Don’t ever forgive the losers who voted for this because they’re irredeemable trash

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    None of this behavior is surprising. He has always been this way. I’m tired of people who should know, not realizing this. Trump has always been this way, and he should have been gone when he made fun of the disabled veteran all those years ago.

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      His pettiness has allowed him to achieve amazing things. He used it to fuel his ambitions to replace the Catholic Church.

      Now he is the one offering sanctuary and relief to countless pedophiles worldwide.

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        That’s like the best possible outcome and would justify having to put up with all of MAGA’s shit.

        He’d be killed by the evangelicals pretty quickly though.

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          This might just be me but I don’t think scientology wants a spotlight on them. No matter what you think of Christianity and the awful people who use it to shield themselves. I feel as if scientology has far darker people behind it.

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    I really want the pope to excommunicate Vance over all of this. That would be some excellent television.

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    Who in this day and age feuds with the dang pope? Are we going to have pope wars again? I hope so.