The Milwaukee Archdiocese has recently declared bankruptcy yet it continues to fund the Alinsky groups. National CCHD still refuses to publish a list of its grantees for 2009 and 2010. http://www.usccb.org/cchd/grants/index.shtml
My question: "What percentage of Catholics would contribute to CCHD if they knew that their funds were going to pro-death, Democrat-controlled organizations?" My assertion: If a business entity engaged in this kind of "bait and switch" fundraising, it would be subject to criminal prosecution. It seems that our bishops haven't learned a thing from the sex-abuse scandals.
That all depends on what you mean by "Catholic."
A priest friend joked the other day that "ex Catholics are the second largest denomination in the US "
And don't forget, they elected Obama.
Yep! We always have the checks written before Mass, but when we find out the second collection is for CCHD, THAT one goes back in the pocket. Not One Dime.
The CCHD is loaded with far-left democrat operatives who are past and present supporters of pro-abortion dimocrats and often previous democrat staffers.
The John Carr mentioned in this article is a former Hubert Humphrey operative and was a passionate anti-Bush partisan. It was partly under his watch that ACORN received $7 million for political operations supporting far left agendas and abortion. The Catholic bishops naively let these socialist zealots run the store while they pontificate on the requirements of the faithful to oppose abortion and march for life.
Except for the bishop in Scranton who was transferred out because of his vocal stand against the leftist drift of the USCCB and the bishops, these bishops will speak out against abortion in the morning and then be seen wining and dining with abortionists like Pelosi, Kennedy, Biden, Leahy, Kerry, et al. in the evening.
The people like these two CCHB officials are a driving force behind the bishops’ demands for “comprehensive immigration reform” (amnesty). For McCloud and Carr, illegals are a way to more democrat voters. The bishops think the illegals are kindred Catholic souls they need to take care of, not realizing that many if not most illegals are evangelical Protestant, irreligious, or lapsed believers.
What's funny is that my auto-speller suggests "Saul Spindly" when I'm typing that diabolical scumbag's name into the search box.