Robbing the poor box

In the name of Holy Mary, mother of God, what the feck's going on here?

 MPs have asked ministers to explain why £1.85m ($3m) from the international development budget was spent on the Pope's UK visit in September.

So what exactly did the Papal visit contribute to overseas development? Some gobshite in the Department for International Development came up with this:

Our contribution recognised the Catholic Church's role as a major provider of health and education services in developing countries,

So they used taxpayers money that was meant to relieve poverty to subsidise  the Pope's visit to the UK. All to say thanks to the Vatican for the work of Catholic charities? By that logic, Dfid should stop giving aid to the world's least developed countries and give the USA a bloody great blank cheque instead, on account of how much development aid the Yanks fork up and them having the Gates Foundation and everything.

Surely to God, if they were that bloody impressed with Catholic charities, they could have just given the feckin' money straight to CATHOD, rather than spending the thick end of two million quid on riot police and red carpets?

That Jesus fella is supposed to have said 'ye have the poor always with you.' With those eejits at  Dfid pissing away the tax money that's supposed to help lift the poor of the earth out of poverty, it sounds like he was bloody well right.