The "Catholic" Campaign for Human Development has suspended funding to the NYC AIDS Housing Network. The Agency, which had been approved for a grant from the CCHD, distributes condoms, which has little to do with housing in the first place, and violates Catholic morality in the second. This is not a success story!
For several years, there has been a movement, inspired by the disgust of the faithful, and led by the laity, to reform CCHD. The national organization has said it fixed the problem, and the various diocesan branches has said that they have fixed the problem. They haven't. This group was approved for grants, and was removed only after, once again, the laity had to point out, publicly, that the Catholic Church was funding activity that directly violates Catholic morality and teaching. This wasn't the result of hard searching by hard core investigators, it was simply found by a web search. So much for the vetting process.
We need to remember the Chicago branch (Anybody ever notice how much utter crap comes out of Chicago? We should deed it over to some nation in exchange for 3 acres of wilderness somewhere!) where a strong effort at reform, in accordance with the teachings of the Church was derailed by bureaucratic infighting to get more money for left wing and gay political groups. This whole campaign needs to be shut down, and the requirements for long term improvement in the situation for the poor and disadvantaged rethought. In fact, considering that at this point, the "poor and disadvantaged" now have more political clout than the employed and productive, we need to rethink the necessity and wisdom of such a program in the first place.
In any event, it's clear that the last priority of the functionaries who administer the CCHD is Catholicism, and the first is furthering progressive politics.
For several years, there has been a movement, inspired by the disgust of the faithful, and led by the laity, to reform CCHD. The national organization has said it fixed the problem, and the various diocesan branches has said that they have fixed the problem. They haven't. This group was approved for grants, and was removed only after, once again, the laity had to point out, publicly, that the Catholic Church was funding activity that directly violates Catholic morality and teaching. This wasn't the result of hard searching by hard core investigators, it was simply found by a web search. So much for the vetting process.
We need to remember the Chicago branch (Anybody ever notice how much utter crap comes out of Chicago? We should deed it over to some nation in exchange for 3 acres of wilderness somewhere!) where a strong effort at reform, in accordance with the teachings of the Church was derailed by bureaucratic infighting to get more money for left wing and gay political groups. This whole campaign needs to be shut down, and the requirements for long term improvement in the situation for the poor and disadvantaged rethought. In fact, considering that at this point, the "poor and disadvantaged" now have more political clout than the employed and productive, we need to rethink the necessity and wisdom of such a program in the first place.
In any event, it's clear that the last priority of the functionaries who administer the CCHD is Catholicism, and the first is furthering progressive politics.
2 comments:
The CCHD needs to go away. It's a disgrace and it violates Catholic teaching by making it a big country-wide collection. Money should go no higher than a diocese and even that should be very limited.
I spent a huge amount of time last year vetting where that money went. 99% of it went to community organizing groups - some of which I don't even think actually existed. Some of the websites I examined were clearly sham setups.
Get rid of the the Bishops conferance too. That's where the crap is really coming from!
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