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Hi, G.C. —
Based on a previous review by Catholic Culture, this group is not faithful to the Church.
I couldn't even find a picture of the Holy Father
anywhere on their web site.
You said:
- How are they associated with
the Catholic Church?
Any organization that is not faithful to the Church's
Magisterium, yet uses the name catholic
has to have a bishop who, sadly, is accountable for
this.
You said:
- Does the Catholic Church fund
and support the ideas of this group?
Not officially, though there are scandalous organizations
in the Church that may.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
(USCCB) Conference has a scandalous record of supporting
groups that are not faithful to the Church. This
is highlighted by the:
Catholic Campaign for Human
Development
In an airing of The World Over on EWTN,
host Raymond Arroyo on September 25th and
November 13th 2009 Raymond Arroyo stated:
The mission of the Catholic Campaign for Human
Development is supposed to be fighting poverty.
Nevertheless they:
- forbid granting monies to Catholic groups and
- forbid giving money to organizations that are
partisan or are opposed to Church teaching.
Note: Despite claim number 2. in the past they
have given monies to liberal organizations that promote:
- contraception
- same sex marriage, and
- abortion
Raymond mentioned five such groups, along with
(ACORN):
the
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now:
- The Chinese Progressive Association
- The Los Angeles Community Network
- The Rebecca Project for Human Rights
- The Women's Community Revitalization Project
- Young Workers United.
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He went on to say that the bishops have suspended
giving money to two out of the five organizations.
Nevertheless, he said, about one million dollars
of your second collection donations have gone to
these groups. ($14 million was given to non-Catholic entities in 2006.)
On the November 13th show, he had on
Robert Gaspar from the Bellarmine Veritas Ministry and Michael Hitchborn from the American Life League.
On that show, it was noted that although:
- ACORN
- The Chinese Progressive Association
- The Rebecca Project for Human Rights, and
- Young Workers United
had been defunded by the Bishop's Conference,
four other groups, where Catholics through
the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, were
funding organizations that promoted grave evil. They were:
- the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center
in Ohio
(Lists on their web site as their "Friends and
Colleagues" web sites that are pro abortion and
pro homosexuality marriage.)
- the Massachusetts Community Labor Untied
(Joined "Cure CVS Now" to
expand access to birth control via their "unlock
the condoms" initiative.)
- Voces de la Frontera of Wisconsin
(Promoted a homosexual campaign in their October
2009 newsletter.)
- Preble Street in Maine
(Operates a Day shelter where "Family Planning
Services" are available.
They also joined an organization that would
maintain same-sex marriage in Maine.)
Raymond stated on his September airing that
last year, EWTN News asked for a line item
budget from the USCCB, (where some of these expenditures would show
up) but the request was denied by the
bishops.
Fr. Robert Sirico from the Acton Institute commented
on the September show:
What is problematic is the culture that surrounds
the decision making [on which groups receive
any money] is several steps removed from the
bishops.
Despite scandalous behavior by those Our Lord has
chosen to shepherd His flock, we have to remember,
that we can't leave the bark or truth of Peter, due
to scandalous Judas behavior.
I think the final comments that Robert
Gaspar and Michael
Hitchborn made were
important and
I totally agree with them. They
said, paraphrasing:
No one is trying to abolish
the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
What's
needed is a complete and total reform of the grants
process with absolute transparency.
Catholics should not unknowingly be funding morally
grave evil. Catholics stand for holiness, or should, in word and deeds.
- Isn't that what Jesus would want?
Sharing your concerns with your priests and
bishops over time, will send a message, similar to
the one I used, a few years ago at a parish second
collection for the (CUA) Catholic University of America,
when dissenting professor Charles Curran was
there.
Then I took two Post-It notes stuck back-to-back
and wrote on it:
No dogma / No doctrine: No
dollars!!
Even if the situation at CUA has changed, we have
to encourage our cardinals and bishops to suspend
the spending of money to groups that support principles
contrary to the Church's teachings.
Make up your own slogan and drop it in the basket. It's
not being irreverent or disrespectful, although
that's what they may say.
It's showing our pastors, bishops and cardinals
that we have an informed
Catholic intellect and that we will only financially
support groups that actively encourage
and promote Catholic teachings that are faithful
to the Magisterium of the Church.
You said:
- Where in the Catholic Church
can I send my protests about this group?
I would write to your local bishop and to the U.S. Apostolic Nunciature. His address is on our addresses page near the bottom.
Final note: Because of the reaction to the shows
that Raymond has broadcast, I'm hoping that the
bishops will take more action to defund these other
anti-Catholic groups that are currently being funded, unknowingly, by Catholics.
Rather then continue
to update this posting, I encourage you to watch
the World Over with Raymond Arroyo every Friday
night on EWTN.
Hope this helps,
Mike
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