A group of House Republicans is preparing to investigate three nongovernmental organizations (ngos) that work with migrants on the southern border, but Catholic Charities usa is pushing back strongly against allegations that they help smuggle illegal immigrants into the nation.

On December 14, Representatives Lance Gooden, Jake Ellzey, Tom Tiffany and Andy Biggs wrote to Catholic Charities usa, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, and Jewish Family Service of San Diego, expressing concern about “the growing role [ngos] play in fueling the drastic increase in illegal aliens crossing the southern border.” Catholic Charities usa fired back that these accusations were “fallacious and factually inaccurate.”

Yet whether or not Catholic Charities usa is acting legally, Catholic ngos are among the largest recipients of immigration-related grants. According to a detailed analysis of USAspending.gov by the watchdog group Compliant Clergy, the United States Catholic Bishops Conference received over $67 million in migrant-related funding from the federal government in 2021, its second-largest source of revenue that year.

Of course, much of this revenue is undoubtedly used to help legal immigrants and refugees. However, examination of the USAspending.gov data also reveals that the money being given to Catholic organizations has increased from an average of $212 million per year under the Trump administration to nearly $600 million per year under the Biden administration. That is an astonishing threefold increase, which corresponds directly with the number of illegal aliens crossing the border. That is a suspicious number.

The New York Post reported earlier this year that the Democrats were using charities to hide how much money is going to illegal immigrants. “Even before crossing the border, migrants still in Mexico are being handed debit cards loaded with $800 a month to enable them to pay for necessities,” wrote investigative journalist and former New York Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey. “The gift cards are distributed by the nonprofit Organization for Migration, thanks to money provided by the U.S. State Department. After crossing and surrendering to U.S. Border agents, many migrants are directed to Catholic Charities, which provides them with hotel rooms, meals and clothing, and sometimes pays for their bus or plane tickets to their chosen destinations.”

Of course, Catholic Charities usa and other ngos can argue that such activity is legal because it is being done with government approval. But that does not change the fact that the migrants being bused to Catholic Charities are undocumented.

According to the Capital Research Center, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, the nation’s largest network of nonprofit immigration activist programs, started announcing the receipt of grants from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to their affiliates in September. These grants were supposed to help “expand [the network’s] range of services for our low-income immigrant clients on their path to citizenship.” Yet using taxpayer dollars to help illegal immigrants fight deportation strikes many as unfair since citizens are not offered commensurate legal services.

As McCaughey said, “Democratic politicians want to maximize illegal immigration, but they don’t want their fingerprints on it. The remedy: Pay so-called charities that will do the work for them.” Not all of these charities are Catholic, of course, but the largest network is, as well as many others.

Only time will tell how deep the potential corruption uncovered by a House investigation will go, but Catholic Charities usa agencies traditionally resettle roughly 25 percent of all refugees admitted into the U.S. each year. But quite a few investigative journalists believe these charities are heavily involved in trafficking illegal immigrants. This makes sense, as San Diego bishop Robert McElroy stated in 2016 that mass deportations of illegal aliens could remove 10 percent of parishioners from U.S. churches.

Today, Pew research data shows that 67 million people identify as Catholics in the U.S., roughly 21 percent of the population. But for every convert, six Catholics leave the church. About half give up on religion, while the other half join a Protestant denomination. The reason the percentage of Catholics in America isn’t plummeting is that native-born Catholics are being replaced by foreign-born ones. Without illegal immigration, the Catholic Church in the U.S. would be a shrinking organization of diminishing influence. Immigrants moving into the country give Catholic leaders influence that they would not otherwise have. According to the Vienna Institute of Demography, if immigration into America doubled, Catholicism would overtake Protestantism to become the largest religion by the middle of the century.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports illegal immigration into America as part of its strategy to weaken America’s Protestant base and transform it into a Catholic nation. Astonishingly, this strategy was foretold in the Bible. Both Revelation 17 and Isaiah 47 refer to the combined religious and political power of a great false church. The church known as “Mystery, Babylon the Great” in Revelation is referred to as the “daughter of Babylon” and the “lady of kingdoms” in Isaiah. This church will rule over a union of 10 nations. And because God is “wroth” with the modern descendants of ancient Israel for their sins, He turns them over to this religious power, which takes them captive.

Herbert W. Armstrong explained in The United States and Britain in Prophecy that the modern-day Israelites are primarily from the U.S. and Britain. So the prophecies in Revelation 17 and Isaiah 47 are about a European superpower conquering the U.S. The Vatican is using the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to help parishioners from Latin America settle in the U.S. But soon, invaders from Europe will join the illegal immigrants streaming over the Mexican border.

Thankfully, God tells us how we can be protected from this catastrophe. “Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?” (Ezekiel 33:10-11). The book of Ezekiel was written specifically for this end time. (Request your free copy of Ezekiel—The End-Time Prophet.) There is only one way that God will protect us: Our people must turn, turn, turn from our sins.

To learn more about the Vatican’s involvement on the U.S. southern border, read “Why Is the Pope Meddling in American Politics?”, by Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry.