CATHOLIC CHARITIES NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION

Catholic Charities Nonprofit Organization

Abstract

In this paper we have discussed about the ethical issues in the Catholic Charities which are offcourse non profit organization for the welfare of the public. Actually Catholic Charities are worldwide network of charities whose aim is to "reduce poverty, support families, and empower communities. Starting with an introduction about the catholic Charities is there a brief discussion on various ethical issues in these organizations and at the end is the conclusion of the whole discussion.

Table of Contents

ABSTRACT2

INTRODUCTION4

DISCUSSION5

RELEVANT LITERATURE7

POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS9

STEP BY STEP SOLUTION11

CONCLUSION13

REFERENCES15

Catholic Charities Nonprofit Organization

Introduction

Catholic Charities is a worldwide network of charities whose aim is to reduce poverty, support families, and empower communities. It is one of the largest charities in the United States. Catholic Charities traces its origin to an orphanage founded in 1727 in New Orleans, Louisiana by the French Ursulines Sisters.Catholic Charities, USA (CCUSA), with headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, was founded in 1910 as the National Conference of Catholic Charities.

As advanced social thinkers rediscover the power of faith-based institutions to rescue the down-and-out by transforming the dysfunctional worldview that often lies at the root of their difficulties, you would think that Catholic Charities USA would be a perfect model to emulate, getting the poor into the mainstream by emphasizing moral values and ethical conduct. But no, rather than trying to promote traditional values and God-fearing behavior, Catholic Charities—and the same could be said about the Association of Jewish Family and Children's Agencies or the Lutheran Services in America—has become over the last three decades an arm of the welfare state, with 65 percent of its $2.3 billion annual budget now flowing from government sources and little that is explicitly religious, or even values-laden, about most of the services its 1,400 member agencies and 46,000 paid employees provide(Johnson, 1999).

Discussion

Government pays for most of this activity, and with government funds come restrictions. Charities must follow time-wasting rules that reduce flexibility and require a one-size-fits-all approach to treating people with endlessly various problems. Worse, until recently the regulations have prohibited charities from including a strong religious dimension in their programs. For wayward kids, for welfare moms trying to break free of dependency, for heroin addicts or drunks trying to kick the habit, faith-based programs work best. Psychologist David Larson at the National Institute for Healthcare Research cites many studies that show a strong correlation between religious participation and rejecting crime and substance abuse; criminologist Byron Johnson of Lamar University has shown big drops in recidivism for prisoners who go through Charles Colson's faith-based Prison Fellowship Program(Ruderman 2001).

Catholic Charities would have found none of this surprising 70 years ago, but many of today's Catholic Charities agencies pay little attention to the power of faith to transform lives. Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum sparked a fierce controversy in 1996 when he rebuked Catholic Charities for drifting away from the faith under the pressure of government funding. Santorum told of a priest he knows who began a psychology internship at a Catholic Charities ...