Canada's Catholic Abortion Scandal

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Hi y’all. I’m brand new to the forums - just arrived from the great white north! Are there many Canadians on CAF? If so, have you been following the developing controversy surrounding the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development & Peace (CCODP)? Catholic journalists have uncovered dozens of abortion-advocacy groups whom this official agency of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has been financing. The following video is short but powerful and will bring you up to speed: youtube.com/watch?v=RsBkAc8Shng
Any ideas on what Canadian Catholics can and should do?
 
Unbelievable, they had issues with Humanae Vitae so I guess that isn’t a huge suprise.
 
If someone wants to skip the video, Deal Hudson has addressed the issue in his blog:
Now a much more egregious use of Catholic money has been alleged. LifeSiteNews (LSN), which operates primarily out of Toronto and is leading the investigation, has presented evidence that the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development & Peace (CCODP), an official arm of the Canadian Bishops’ Conference, is funding 16 organizations in 9 countries who advocate in favor of abortion and/or contraception.

At first, the Canadian Bishops’ Conference paid little heed to the evidence against CCODP and instead urged Catholics to continue giving to the organization. Two Canadian bishops called LSN’s reporting “false” and “malicious.” After months of following the story, however, it began to gain traction. An editorial in the Catholic newspaper of Vancouver acknowledged the scope of the CCODP scandal. Vancouver’s Archbishop, J. Michael Miller, and several other bishops demanded an internal investigation of CCODP before passing along its share of the annual Lenten collection. As a result, CCODP has asked a group of Canadian, U.S., and Mexican bishops to investigate the allegations.
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After LSN released its first report, CCODP responded by releasing a memo saying that it was not involved in funding organizations that provide “abortion services,” an accusation LSN never made.
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So, if I understand the matter, CCODP is not funding organizations which provide abortion services. They are funding organizations which support a right to abortion. This seems a very important distinction.
 
Even the support of the “right” for abortion is wrong. To me there is no distinction. If you support the right, you support the action.
 
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