You are correct, and the fact it was “stopped” a few weeks before the election only when it reached National MSM level is not particularly impressive on the part of the bishops. Catholics have been complaining, writing, and even organizing small grass-roots efforts for over TEN YEARS to get the bishops to STOP not just ACORN but all the CCHD BS, which most of it is.
And, I’m sorry to disillusion some good Catholics, it’s not just CCHD. Catholic Charities, Bishops Annual Appeal, many of these things with the fancy posters in the vestibule with pictures of starving kids or whatever, are almost as bad. YOUR MONEY HAS GONE DIRECTLY, via umbrella organizations, to pay for abortions, Democrat fundraisers, global warming causes, feminist groups, homosexual groups, free attorneys for illegals, heretical religious educational materials, consulting fees for “safe environment” classes conducted by groups that support prostitution, pornography, contraception....and more.
Caveat: this is not true in every diocese, but almost all. Burke, Bruskewitz, Vasa have cracked down on this stuff a while ago.
Spend a few hours following the links from your archdiocese, and you can discover this yourself. Call the peace and justice office and ask for their budget and a detailed list of what organizations they support. Then look up those organizations websites and get ready for a shock. Or ask for the prolife office (we don’t even HAVE ONE in our archdiocese) and see how much they are doing, what is the staff, the budget, the plans.
Catholics in good faith wanting to help the needy have contributed to these funds. Catholics and Protestants together with almost no church leadership have fought abortion from sidewalk protests to adopting babies. The average Catholic or prolifer is not to blame for the “failures” of the prolife movement, the failure rests squarely on the shoulders of the Bishops.
If they lead by education and example, and ordered their wayward priests to also get on board, Catholics, and then our protestant brethren (who instinctively respond to moral truths whatever theological differences), will join us.
But now it’s a disjointed effort of well-intentioned folks running in a hundred different directions. The bishops have the POWER, MONEY and PRESTIGE that if this was THEIR number one priority, all America would eventually be unable to stop avoiding the subject.
“Catholics have been complaining, writing, and even organizing small grass-roots efforts for over TEN YEARS to get the bishops to STOP not just ACORN but all the CCHD BS, which most of it is.
And, I’m sorry to disillusion some good Catholics, it’s not just CCHD. Catholic Charities, Bishops Annual Appeal, many of these things with the fancy posters in the vestibule with pictures of starving kids or whatever, are almost as bad. YOUR MONEY HAS GONE DIRECTLY, via umbrella organizations, to pay for abortions, Democrat fundraisers, global warming causes, feminist groups, homosexual groups, free attorneys for illegals, heretical religious educational materials, consulting fees for “safe environment” classes conducted by groups that support prostitution, pornography, contraception....and more.
Caveat: this is not true in every diocese, but almost all. Burke, Bruskewitz, Vasa have cracked down on this stuff a while ago.”
Please share me links on these activities and related info. I would like to learn more and figure out what can be done to respond, what groups if any are trying to fight this. I have a fight myself in our parish and I want to be well-armed with the facts.