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The Church and Protecting Children

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In New York State, the Catholic Church has implemented sweeping reforms to protect children – training 1.5 million children to report abuse and to avoid situations where they might be hurt or victimized; conducting criminal background checks on more than 218,000 priests, religious and lay volunteers who interact with children; providing mandatory training in sexual abuse prevention strategies to more than 217,000 adults.

Retrospective Repeal of the Statute of Limitations
NY State Assembly
Contact or find your Assembly Member – https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/

Why we oppose this legislation – the White Paper

Alternative Legislation We Can Support
Bill No. 5708

Taxing Catholic Schools Out of Existence

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The metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax (MCTMT) is a new tax imposed on certain employers including Catholic School and self-employed individuals engaging in business within the metropolitan commuter transportation district MCTD (the counties of New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island), Rockland, Nassau, Suffolk, Orange, Putnam, Dutchess, and Westchester.) This tax ($.34 for every $100 of payroll) means that in the Diocese of Brooklyn almost $500,000 has to be redirected from children in classrooms across the Diocese to fund the MTA. And while the state is making up the shortfall this will create in Public Schools, children of working class parents in Catholic Schools are once again ignored!

Bishop Rene A. Valero, Retired Auxiliary

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The youngest of three sons of Venezuelan parents — Caesar and the late Maria (Cordova) Valero, both born in Caracas — he has also influenced the development of Hispanic ministry in the Diocese since the mid-1970s.

Born in the West Harlem section of Manhattan on Aug. 15, 1930, he attended St. Joseph’s School there and Sacred Heart Mission House, Girard, Pa., before beginning seminary training at Cathedral College, Brooklyn. Read more »