UNITED STATES
Catholic News Agency
February 5, 2021
By Jonah McKeown
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/did-the-roman-catholic-church-unjustly-collect-federal-aid-ap-story-misrepresents-church-finances-expert-says-18615
A Feb. 4 investigative story from the Associated Press inaccurately portrays “the Roman Catholic Church” as a “giant corporate monolith” that raked in federal aid while sitting on billions of dollars that they could have used to pay employees, a canon and civil law expert told CNA.
In reality, “the Roman Catholic Church” in the US is made up of tens of thousands of separate nonprofits, most of which did not have legal access to liquid cash necessary to pay their employees when the pandemic took hold last year.
The CARES Act, passed in March 2020, initially authorized some $350 billion in loans to small businesses, known as the Paycheck Protection Program, which was intended to allow them to continue to pay their employees.
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