Chicago archdiocesan officials lash out at critics of Catholic Campaign for Human Development [CC]

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Four officials of the Archdiocese of Chicago have blasted critics of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the US bishops’ controversial anti-poverty effort.

“Recently, CCHD has come under attack from certain groups whose motivations and objectives are rooted in partisan politics, rather than faithfulness to Catholic teaching and concern for the poor,” according to the officials. “These groups have gone so far as to call for the elimination of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, making erroneous and inflammatory statements about the program, its supporters, and the projects it funds…

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I’m with the archdiocese on this. Poverty is poverty and Catholic Christians should fight against it. I followed some of the links and checked the web sites of some of the organizations criticized by American Life League. If they are doing something not in agreement with Catholic teaching you have to really dig into them.

Jesus said to love your enemies (Matt 5:44). These dissenters seem to ignore this point.
 
Good! I am also with the archdiocese. Whatever can be done to fight poverty must be done. Those who oppose the bishops’ efforts are just being plan ridiculous in my opinion.
 
Partisan politics has been part of this pro-big gov’t bureaucracy for a long time, probably from its inception. How in the name of heaven could ACORN have received millions and millions of thier $ dollars if not liberal in it’s politics? ACORN only got noticed because President Obama use to be their legal rep. ACORN received CCHD dollars for “get out the vote” efforts. This is helping the poor? I bet if the ‘get out the vote’ effort went to re electing pro life conservatives the yelling would be deafening. It is helping the Democrats get elected using CCHD $. The Bellarmine Veritas Ministry uncovered more of CCHD $ going to groups that support abortion and pro abortion candidates; albeit indirectly. They suggest that Bob Dornan’s (the pro life congressman from CA) opponet Sanchez (pro abort) won because of CCHD $. With all the millions of $ collected for CCHD why don’t they have their own research arm? Wouldn’t ya think? They give money to extremely liberal dark causes until they are caught and then they stop? To dismiss pro life groups who challenge and criticize the CCHD as ‘partisan’ is revealing. Maybe thou protest too much?
The leading cause of poverty in this country is single mothers. Really, leading cause of poverty is not nasty stingy greedy conservatives!
I say send your $ to the Acton Institute, a sound Catholic, liberty loving, think tank that promotes an authentic Catholic world view of virtue and service. Such groups as Acton, do tremendous good to reveal causes and solutions to poverty in this country. And their efforts are scandel free.
 
I will not give any money to the CCHD. Not one dime. I will make contributions to my own parish or SVP or another parish instead. I don’t want to pay for things that are “mostly” Catholic-minded. I want my little bit to be “all” Catholic-minded.

I will try to educate myself and — within my small range of influence — teach others about Catholic principles. “subsidiarity” is a big deal for me.
I think the CHD is an idea whose time is past. The types of intermediary organizations it supports have been shown to be a waste of resources. Either support genuinely Catholic charities, or hand the money directly to the needy in the form of gas cards or Home Depot cards, perhaps through St. Vincent de Paul societies or other parish-based services.

If an organization can’t attract individual contributions, as opposed to government or foundation grants, then it’s probably pretty useless, if not actively harmful
 
aimee said:
I will not give any money to the CCHD. Not one dime. I will make contributions to my own parish or SVP or another parish instead. I don’t want to pay for things that are “mostly” Catholic-minded. I want my little bit to be “all” Catholic-minded.

I will try to educate myself and — within my small range of influence — teach others about Catholic principles. “subsidiarity” is a big deal for me.
I think the CHD is an idea whose time is past. The types of intermediary organizations it supports have been shown to be a waste of resources. Either support genuinely Catholic charities, or hand the money directly to the needy in the form of gas cards or Home Depot cards, perhaps through St. Vincent de Paul societies or other parish-based services.

If an organization can’t attract individual contributions, as opposed to government or foundation grants, then it’s probably pretty useless, if not actively harmful
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Well said. I, too, will be keeping my wallet closed for the 2nd collection next Sunday, and will be sending along a contribution to a worthy cause instead of to this particular organization’s coffers, tainted as it is with politics and waste, not to mention the culture of death.
 
Holly3278 said:
Good! I am also with the archdiocese. Whatever can be done to fight poverty must be done. Those who oppose the bishops’ efforts are just being plan ridiculous in my opinion.
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How ridiculous (and “loving”) do you suppose it was for the officials of this controversial organization to brand their critics as ‘hateful’ just because their critics don’t want their charity going to organizations which lobby for policies which they spiritually oppose? It sounds like those most in need of ‘human development’ are the officials of CCHD, since they seem to be quick to ascribe hidden and evil motivations upon people whom they don’t even know.

I pray that the bishops will drop the CCHD as a controversial and politicized pariah that it has become, and build upon parish-based charities instead.
 
Stylites said:
How ridiculous (and “loving”) do you suppose it was for the officials of this controversial organization to brand their critics as ‘hateful’ just because their critics don’t want their charity going to organizations which lobby for policies which they spiritually oppose? It sounds like those most in need of ‘human development’ are the officials of CCHD, since they seem to be quick to ascribe hidden and evil motivations upon people whom they don’t even know.

I pray that the bishops will drop the CCHD as a controversial and politicized pariah that it has become, and build upon parish-based charities instead.
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I would add faithful religious orders (MoP’s, Sisters of Charity, Hospitalliers) and lay apostolates (AFC, CUF, VdeP) to that list as well.
 
CWN_News said:
“These groups have gone so far as to call for the elimination of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development . . .
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As if the CCHD is such a great and wonderful thing, or that closing it down so as to redirect charity funds to non-controversial and better-managed organizations would be so terrible.
 
making erroneous and inflammatory statements about the program, its supporters, and the projects it funds
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I, for one, would be interested in hear how the the statements in regards to the organizations that recieved funding were erroneous.

Following the links provided by ALL to the orgs websites seems to confirm what the ALL has been saying.

Unless this is resolved and the CCHD starts vetting the orgs they choose to partner with better, I see no reason why I should give to the CCHD over other Catholic programs that do similar work.
 
I do have problems with contributing to ACORN, and it amazes me that the CCHD would give money to it or a similar organization.

My biggest problem with some of its decisions, though, is that there are plenty of truly Catholic organizations and causes to which it could give money. When it gives money to “social action” kinds of secular groups, it must necessarily turn down much worthier causes; causes to which few Catholics would have reservations. Personallly, I don’t like to see Catholic organizations wed themselves to secular conduits at all.
 
I don’t care how they put it, but donating money to organizations whose purpose is to effect political change, is political in its nature. Aside from the fact that many Catholics don’t share the political views of some of these “community action” organizations, something they have a moral right to do, it deprives real Catholic organizations of the money.
 
I can’t get over how much dissention to the teaching of the magisterium has been posted on this topic.
 
rep140 said:
I can’t get over how much dissention to the teaching of the magisterium has been posted on this topic.
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umm, what teaching? That abortion and homosexual acts are immoral and we as Catholics can’t support them? No, wait, that’s what CCHD is doing.

CCHD demonstrably supports things it should not. People raise awareness of this, asking the bishops to look into it. The bishops respond by attacking the messenger, they take the message to the source of the money: the people.
 
rep140 said:
Jesus said to love your enemies (Matt 5:44). These dissenters seem to ignore this point.
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Here we go again! The authentic social justice teaching of the Church has become so distorted that we now engage one another in untruths.
I can’t get over how much dissention to the teaching of the magisterium has been posted on this topic.
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Seems to me some of the bishops themselves are the chief dissenters! But they need to do something quickly to protect their bureaucracy. After all, the faithful are finally becoming informed of the political actions of Church leadership which is a far cry from the real mission of the Church - to declare timeless moral truth and save souls!
 
The underlying problem that has now shown its ugly head with the CCHD funding of pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage, etc. organizations (and even the movie review of “The Golden Compass”) is that the bishops have lost control of the staff they’ve relied on to run their organizations.

With little oversight, or only oversight by those that agree with these aberrations,
the bishops have lost control of their own organization.

It’s going to take a strong leader, to put his own archdiocese on hold, and go to Washington and kick some butt and purge the bloated USCCB and CCHD staffs of all those malcontents that don’t agree with Church teachings.:mad:
 
jenkiedad said:
The underlying problem that has now shown its ugly head with the CCHD funding of pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage, etc. organizations (and even the movie review of “The Golden Compass”) is that the bishops have lost control of the staff they’ve relied on to run their organizations.

With little oversight, or only oversight by those that agree with these aberrations,
the bishops have lost control of their own organization.

It’s going to take a strong leader, to put his own archdiocese on hold, and go to Washington and kick some butt and purge the bloated USCCB and CCHD staffs of all those malcontents that don’t agree with Church teachings.:mad:
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Hard for me not to agree. Some of the things the USCCB does are inexplicable from a Catholic standpoint. While there have been, and still are, some highly questionable bishops in the U.S., I can’t picture a majority of them supporting the donation of funds of the faithful going to, e.g., abortionist or homosexualist groups.

The bishops really do need to wake up to this before Catholics generally simply become so distrusting that they won’t contribute to anything.
 
rep140 said:
I can’t get over how much dissention to the teaching of the magisterium has been posted on this topic.
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Apart from the CCHD officials engaging in uncharitable ad hominem attacks, can you give even one example?
 
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