When the Neo-Church Becomes a Government Subcontractor
NC Register portal reports that Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami (CCADM) announced the layoff of more than 80 employees after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declined to renew an $11 million federal contract serving unaccompanied immigrant children. Archbishop Thomas Wenski called the decision “baffling,” noting the program’s “competence and excellence,” and warned that services would be “forced to shut down within three months.” The Msgr. Bryan Walsh Children’s Village, housing up to 81 undocumented immigrant minors, faces closure. The layoffs, described as permanent, were executed without the standard 60 days’ notice due to “unforeseen circumstances.” The article presents this as an institutional misfortune, a disruption of charitable services by federal policy shifts.



