Pope Francis & $1.6 Billion in Contracts & Grants

Berger's Beat
September 25, 2015

http://bergersbeat.com/pope-francis-1-6-billion-in-contracts-grants/

Hardware and improvement store Menard, Inc. will break ground on a new 185,000 square-foot facility in Sullivan. The manufacturing and distribution facility will employ 129 new jobs. . .Big support last night for GOP chairman John Hancock and the Missouri Republican Party at Hunter Farm, hosted by Steve and Kimmie Brauer. The event honored former Guv. Matt Blunt with special guest Mitt Romney.

“NOT TO BE LOST IN POMP & CIRCUMSTANCE OF POPE FRANCIS’ first visit to Washington is the reality that the Catholic Church he oversees has become one of the largest recipients of federal largesse in America,” reports Kelly Riddell. “The church and related Catholic charities and schools have collected more than $1.6 billion since 2012 in U.S. contracts and grants in a far-reaching relationship that spans from school lunches for grammar school students to contracts across the globe to care for the poor and needy at the expense of Uncle Sam,” a Washington Times review of federal spending records shows.

MEANWHILE, our town’s Barbara Dorris of SNAP is dogging the pontiff, leading support group meetings, leafleting events and news conferences in D.C. and Philly while SNAP prez Barbara Blaine, a SLU alum, does the same in NYC.