text: During these times, many of us, including myself wonder what charities we should give to.  I no longer give to Catholic Charities as they waste money on Pro Life politics & the Permanent Deaconate which only increases sexism in our church and increases clericalism in our parishes around the world while satisfying no need in any parish that trained lay people could not better satisfy without creating a more clericalized and sexist atmosphere.  This on top of the fact that many of these seminarians can take upwards of 400,000 to educate with both a undergraduate & graduate degree in theology, room, board & all else taken care of while we fund nothing close to this for Catholic nuns or laywomen.  Our church has created an atmosphere of men being made smarter than women based on funding one gender & not the other.  This is not that different than third world nations who make their girls stay home from school & only teach their boys to read.  We need to demand women get same sacraments now!