r/TrueCatholicPolitics

I'm trying to find the silver-lining in these developments, but it doesn't look good.

The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) was originally enacted in 1976 (during Congress Party rule). The present statute dates from 2010.

The aggressive spate of recent foreign charity license cancellations, however, has noticeably accelerated under Narendra Modi's BJP government particularly after 2014, and 2020. Even more restrictions were placed in June 2026, and now the 2026 FCRA Amendment Bill is being debated in parliament (currently in committee).

The problem for us, guys: if the amendment passes, and Delhi deems a charity is acting in an anti-national interest, they can simply stop Church charities from receiving another dime from overseas donors.

And even more problematically: if a Church charity loses its FCRA status, the government can seize legal title to lawfully acquired church property the charity already owns.

To be just, this is not simply an anti-Christian bill. The FCRA applies to foreign-funded organisations regardless of religion. Non-Christian (Muslim, hostile political NGOs) have been hammered by FCRA enforcement.

What I don't get is how the FCRA agency assesses Compassion International, World Vision and Missionaries of Charity to be 'acting in an anti-national interest'! Restrictions were placed on Compassion International in 2017. It had to terminate Indian operations with almost 600 church partners, which served almost 150,000 kids.

The Missionaries of Charity's FCRA renewal was refused by the Modi government in December 2021 because of “adverse inputs” (???!!!) and World Vision India lost its FCRA registration in 2024.

The good news, Praise be to God: India is a Constitutional Democracy. The BJP is efficiently, systematically operating through democratic processes, which is almost uncanny in its resemblance to the NSDAPs political action leading up to 1933. It can be reversed if the political will can be mustered.

Please raise awareness of what is happening so that these measures don't hinder or impair the Church’s growth and Salvific Mission in India.

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>Democratic Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy in the state of Massachusetts, making it the 11th state to impose no limits on abortion.

>The legislation signed Aug. 10 removes all of the state’s restrictions on abortion after 24 weeks. An elective late-term abortion may be done based upon “the professional judgment of the physician” performing it, under the law.

One fact that I'm surprised that EWTN didn't mention is that Gov. Healy is a Catholic as well

This is something I have run into a lot recently, so I wanted to comment on it. People who support secularism (most often on the political left, but I see this one the political right as well) tend to present secularism (as in, the government takes no official stance on religion) as the neutral/default stance, with state atheism or a state religion being its opposing sides. What I propose is that, rather than secularism being neutral, it actually takes the official stance that every religion is false.

If a religion were true (as I hope every member of this sub believes is Catholicism) then it would then follow that, since every religion promotes a set of moral values, society ought to be ordered in accordance with that religion. Thus, since secularism claims that no religion has the authority to rule, it must be at the very minimum claiming that an individual one is not true. Now, I’m not philosopher, I have no training in formal logic or real education in the enlightenment thinking or such that lead to secular government, so I could be entirely off base. This mainly comes from (again, primarily politically left) secularists in the modern age making the claim that people do not have the right to pass laws based on religious reasoning. Now one could argue that this is an abuse of secular thought, but even if I agree that it’s an abuse of the intentions most of the originators of the concept, it’s not an abuse, but rather the logical conclusion, of the secular view.

I look forward to seeing everyone’s thoughts.