Posted on 11/23/2011 2:55:14 PM PST by NYer
Every November, including this one, American Catholics -- who constitute approximately 25% of the U.S. population -- are asked to contribute to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). The Catholic faithful have been told that their donations will go to fight poverty.
Little do most of them realize what their money will actually fund. CCHD is the brainchild of Saul Alinsky, the "father of community organizing." Alinsky (1909-1972) had numerous connections in the Catholic community of his native Chicago, some of them nearly as radical as he was. He helped start CCHD in 1969.
Unfortunately, the benevolent-sounding term "community organizing" has a very specific meaning amongst people working in the Alinsky tradition -- and it's not what you would think. In fact, a more fitting term would be "community disorganizing." Alinskyites are trained to go into poor communities and psychologically beat people up until those people have lost all hope for any solutions other than radical change. Once the people are thoroughly demoralized, and have become passive putty in the activist's hands, that same "organizer" will rile them up, exhorting them to blame all their problems on "the establishment."
The "organizer" then incites the people into "direct action," such as "occupying" banks to demand housing loans for people who are bad credit risks and ordinarily would not qualify. You may recall that this practice, which became widespread during the '90s, was a major cause of the 2008 housing market collapse that quickly compromised the whole financial system -- with the disastrous economic consequences from which we still suffer. Regardless of intentions, then, the real-world effects of Alinsky-model organizing are to eliminate jobs, rather than create them; to break families, rather than nurture them; to fracture communities, rather than strengthen them.
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Why do Jews keep funding the radical Left? (who hate them BTW)
The Spirit of Vatican II.
I was always taught that nothing good comes out of the second collection.
if i answered that question,
my post would be deleted.
My parish does not take up any CCHD collection and the CCHD propaganda is nowhere to be found here.
Neither does mine.
The chief reason I can conclude is that most Catholics assume that no matter how corrupt the wolves are that pretend to be shepherds and no matter how lax the leadership is in rooting out and removing these malefactors God will never cast off the Catholic church nor will Christ in judgment say, ‘I never knew you’.
Further Catholics might reason that the misdeeds a few do not undo the good deeds of the many. But is such a reasoning reflective of the thinking of Christ? How can one know if it is or not?
With a new scandal of German bishops knowingly being part of the porno industry a sincere and faithful Catholic might well ask whether claims made by the bishops of being Christ's brothers ring false.
Great post and thread. Thanks.
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
The Law
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life physical, intellectual, and moral life.
But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. This process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.
Life, faculties, production in other words, individuality, liberty, property this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Legal Plunder Has Many Names...(excerpt)
Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.
Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
Much more...(here)...
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G003
Indeed! I am very aware of this. Many of us are aware....but there are also many who are UNAWARE.
Because they love power. Apostate Catholics are some of the most dangerous people on earth.
The second collection is ALWAYS explained and the other miscellaneous ones are explained by the visiting priest/nun who hits us up for his or her own mission.
The on-line and mail charities can be VERY easily checked out. I call'em up on the phone.
Hard for anyone to lose with my method.
I wish it were only that. More like the spirit of Msgr John Ryan.
Not even money for St. Vincent dePaul in feeding the poor?
Why does the GOP keep nominating RINOs?
There are always a few exceptions, but I would be rich if I had a dollar every time I heard "The Cardinal's Stewardship Appeal" being mentioned as the beneficiary of the second collection.
Further Catholics might reason that the misdeeds a few do not undo the good deeds of the many. But is such a reasoning reflective of the thinking of Christ? How can one know if it is or not?
IMO most Catholics are self-deluded that the "Radical Left" part of their church is in the minority, when in fact (at least here in America) it's the majority of those in the pews, and in the leadership. How can Catholics claim that their church has 70 million members in the USA, given that the majority of that number votes Democrat, supports leftist causes, and fails to attend mass regularly, unless the leadership agrees that these are legitimate Catholic behaviors?
Actually, the Church portfolio that the bishops managed held stock in a mainstream publishing company that happened to have a branch which published porn. Please present your evidence that the bishops "knew" all the activities of a company they invested Church funds in.
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