Posted on 12/10/2008 4:13:41 PM PST by wagglebee
Let's fix our own failures before we bemoan those of our leaders.
Meditate on "self government."
Blame the catholic bishops and their funding of leftwing organizations via CCHD (Catholic Campaign for Human Development).
They are willing to fund the pro-death liberals with their shilling for left-wing “Interfaith” organizations that undermine and dilute their moral message. These organizations they ally with are explicitly pro-choice and explicitly support the pro-abortion Democrat establishment. In many cases, they have funded organizations that went to bat for Obama - including ACORN. Heck, they funded Obama himself back in the mid-1980s!!
In the process, they undermine the very catholic faith they claim to uphold.
Not ONE RED CENT for CCHD is what every Catholic should be saying.
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Therefore part of their strategy must be:
* Catholic and Protestant pro-lifers must DEMAND that their churches never give a dime to ACORN.
* Have an organized effort to identify the Christians ( Catholic and Protestant) who are Democrats and proselytize! Convince these Democrats that voting for pro-abortion candidates is a vote for evil. One way to identify them is to check the church address directory with voter roles. Please remember that if every Christian ( Catholic and Protestant) had voted pro-life Obama would **not** have won the election.
* Fight election fraud. Start now identifying poll watchers, combing through voter registration lists looking for invalid registrations, and joining with other PACs to insist on prosecution of voter fraud.
* Work at the grass roots to see that pro-life and conservative Republicans enter the political system at the lowest levels. For instance, in my state the gate way to political advancement is a seat on the school board.
* Work to bring your relatives, friends, and neighbors to a full understanding of Christ. Strengthen those in your congregation who are weak in their testimony of Christ. The surest way to abolish abortion is through a country-wide revival of faith in Christ.
On the day, that any congregation may be taking up collections for left wing ( and therefore pro-abortion) organizations, put a flyer on the cars in the parking lot. Another strategy is a sidewalk picket with signs.
Get the word out to other members of the congregation and let them know where this money is going.
I await with interest the presentation of an alternative plan.
“Not ONE RED CENT for CCHD is what every Catholic should be saying.
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On the day, that any congregation may be taking up collections for left wing ( and therefore pro-abortion) organizations, put a flyer on the cars in the parking lot. Another strategy is a sidewalk picket with signs.
Get the word out to other members of the congregation and let them know where this money is going.”
I agree, but it we do this onesy-twosy it is not effective. If you are a fellow conservative catholic, freepmail me, we need to figure out how to get organized. I have some ideas.
Over 100 Bishops Have Spoken Out on Priority of Life Issues Posted on October 28, 2008, 11:59 AM | Deal W. Hudson |
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If our Catholic bishops had spoken out BEFORE this election instead of seeing to it that ACORN was funded with Catholic money and having 54% of the so-called Catholic vote go for this murdering SOB, we wouldnt have this problem. The Church leadership has largely betrayed us and now they want to sing about defeating FOCA? Cow, barn, gone. This Catholic sees this as meaningless rhetoric from bishops who are playing one song for the flock while doing something else altogether. At best, theyre more concerned with losing their tax-exempt status than they are about speaking the truth.”
I agree 100%. Obama was elected on the backs of support of catholic voters and the catholic organizations could have stopped it but didnt. They showed in their actions that this is not really a priority, and even the ‘faithful citizenship’ language was made deliberately vague to undercut the prolife message.
**Catholics went for Barack Insane Obama by 57%. **
That number was revised to only 48 percent.
Still too much.
And I continue to say that Catholics did NOT vote for Obamanation, only CINOs (Catholics in Name Only) did. And in so doing, they have excommunicated themselves and cannot receive Communion. They need to talk to a priest.
U.S. Bishops Cut All Funding to ACORN, Activities Funded Hard to Determine
Bishop discusses reasons behind cutoff of ACORN funding
Catholic Church drops ACORN funding
I wrote a check to my church’s Caritas fund for emergencies when they help out parishioners.
Surely life wasn't made to forget
And the lost were not made to forget
Surely faith without action is dead
Anywhere near 50% of Catholics voting for a man who is for abortion without restrictions and infanticide for babies born alive after abortion attempts is a sign of terrible moral decay in the church.
“* Catholic and Protestant pro-lifers must DEMAND that their churches never give a dime to ACORN.”
It goes WAY BEYOND ACORN. Catholic charities must never give one red cent to any saul alinsky-type organizations, but 95% of CCHD goes to such organizations. Anything with “Interfaith” in its name is part of the problem.
The wider issue is that ‘social justice’ has been used to divert and dilute the catholic moral authority from these core life issues.
“* Work at the grass roots to see that pro-life and conservative Republicans enter the political system at the lowest levels. For instance, in my state the gate way to political advancement is a seat on the school board.”
True.
NONE of this was shared in church bulletins in most churches or communicated from pulpits. There was a deliberate policy of obfuscation by what must have been multiple liberals in the church US CCB heirarchy to ‘soften the message’.
I do blame the bishops for allowing funds to be used by left-wing organizations that ignore and undermine the life issue. They do not understand the anti-life consequences of their actions.
I didnt say that they continued to fund ACORN. What I AM saying is that 95% of what CCHD money goes to is organizations that are saul alinsky leftwing activist groups that are JUST AS BAD as ACORN.
Every organization with the “Interfaith” label is a part of the “Industrial Areas Foundation” network, which was founded by saul alinsky. These are community activist groups, and one of them funded barack obama back in the day, and their sole purpose is to agitate for govt. It’s left wing activism and it harms the catholic churchs moral credibility.
U.S. bishop approximate breakdown, my estimate based on your question:
About 1/2 are foolish bureaucrats steeped in clericalism and living insulated lives completely out out touch with reality, surrounded by sycophants, yes-men, peace-and-justice progressives, and “SOV2” liturgists. These fit the famous maxim, “A bishop is he who never has a bad meal and never hears the truth.”
About 1/4 dangerous apostates who know exactly what they are doing, seek to undermine the Church, who should be excommunicated.
About 1/4 heroic, courageous men who are devoted to Christ and the true Church and are usually seen as lone nutcases going out on a controversial limb by their fellow bishops. In other works, the good guys.
Our only hope is Sambi and the Pope getting more of the last category to replace the first two categories as they retire.
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