More on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development

Every time an independent researcher studies groups supported by grants from the Catholic Campaing for Human Development (CCHD), they find money going to immoral projects that support abortion, contraception, homosexual marriage, prostitution, illegal immigration, etc. This isn't a recent problem. It has been going on since the CCHD's inception in 1969. The CCHD stonewalls whenever they are criticized and calls the betrayal an aberration, but that line is getting hard to swallow. Below the video is a CCHD memo from CCHD Chairman Bishops Roger Morin claiming (yet again) that this was a mistake and the collection is wonderful, yadda, yadda, yadda.

How many times can CCHD get away with claiming "a mistake" when it comes to supporting the murder of unborn babies and other moral atrocities. The reality is that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is a liberal out-of-control bureaucracy with an agenda to support leftist politics and politicians. When they get caught they beat their breasts and claim (once more ad nauseum) that they just goofed this one time and the collection is oh-so-squeaky-clean if you just trust them. And that's the rub -- trust. The bishops' bureaucracy cannot be trusted!

There's an old saying: "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." The CCHD has been fooling Catholics now for twenty years. Shame on the patsies in the pew if they put a dime in the collection this year no matter how many assurances they get from Bishop Morin about this tainted collection. Would you drink a glass of water from a gallon jug tainted with a pint of sewage?

Follow the Catholic rule of subsidiarity. Support local charities that you know assist the poor: crisis pregnancy centers, free health clinics (make sure they don't prescribe contraception or refer for abortion), shelters and soup kitchens, local job efforts, parish poverty programs, etc. Give your money and volunteer your time at the local level where you know what's happening to the money.

As for the CCHD collection...just say NO! Throw an ACORN in the basket with a note. Since 1973 the bishops have paid lip service to pro-life and passed the collection plate to support the abortion/contraception/homosexual holocaust. There's never been a pro-life collection, and yet the greatest cause of poverty is the breakdown of the family. Let the bishops put OUR money where their pro-life mouths are by substituting pro-life local collections for the discredited national pick-pocket effort of the CCHD.







October 2, 2009
MEMORANDUM
TO: All Bishops
FROM: Bishop Roger P. Morin, Chairman
RE: CCHD
I write to respond to a recent report from Bellarmine Veritas Ministries that identified several CCHD-funded groups that had taken actions in conflict with CCHD’s guidelines after they were funded, particularly lack of conformity with Catholic teaching.
The projects in the report included The Rebecca Project for Human Rights, in Washington, D.C.; the Chinese Progressive Association; and Young Workers United, both based in San Francisco.... Read more.