I recommend if one is going to give to Catholic Charities to earmark the work for very particular functions/locations.

This may take more work and investigation, but that extra work can be offered up for the work that CC does!

I give through the annual campaign at work and I used to give to "Catholic Charities"..and then I found out some of the awful things that Catholic Charities ends up supporting here and there, and so I found out that there's a way to look up particular codes underneath the Catholic Charities category in order to better target the gift to something more aligned with Catholic teaching.   At least this is how my company's program is set up.