But to many are singularly focused on these issues and are not looking at all the other issues that need to be addressed.
You are making this sound like no one thinks the USCCB does any good, and that isn’t true and I don’t see anyone making such a claim. What claim they ARE making is that money went to organizations that were funding abortion and promoting political agendas that defy Church teaching. People want to know WHY the USCCB would fund them, and the USCCB has given no answer, only muddy denials that turn out to be questionable in terms of truth.
…remember gays and lesbian are God’s children and just a blanket condemnation will not resolve the issue.
No one is trying to argue otherwise. We are asking why money donated by Catholics, supposedly for charitable causes, is ending up in the hands of groups who promote progressive political agendas and promote abortion. Those are legitimate questions.
As far as “clean house” you are infiring unfounded acusations since you have no idea the person views of the people working for these organization.
They aren’t unfounded accusations; each of the charges is backed up by financial disclosures by the groups who got the money, their pamphlets, their own website claims. But you’re right about one thing, we have no idea of the views of the people involved because they won’t come forward and reveal how or why they gave the money to whom they did. That is why many are asking the questions, so they WILL explain. But in the face of 3 years of this same circus, the only thing they claim is that they are doing things “right,” but will not open up for anyone to verify they are.
Honest people using honest efforts usually have no problem being open, as they’ve nothing to hide. Here, we don’t know if their efforts were honest or not, and we’d like to know so we can put the matter to rest.
Remember let him without sin cast the first stone.
Don’t be ridiculous. You don’t get to erase what could be serious wrongdoing by making a statement like that. No one is trying to isolate their “sin” above their own; they are just asking for an honest accounting of where monies went and why.
My previous post has a link to an article from the USCCB from Friday, I suggest you review it.
I did review it and found it to be questionable. More than one of the watchdog groups who are following this issue daily have verified the claim about some groups not apparently promoting various causes until after they received the money is false. They provide pages of website screen shots all dated before the money went to them as proof. This only compounds the problem, you see? Because not only is the act questionable, but now there appears to be either a lack of understanding or lack of diligence in checking these organizations out before funding them. This is why an open accounting is being sought, because the answers we’re getting are not truthful, intentional or not. So no one is saying they are deliberately lying (sinning), they are saying we can’t tell if they are or not, and that is a BIG difference. But opening the process up will clear the whole problem up, don’t you think?
Isn’t that a better solution than to just hide behind “casting the first stone” and leaving gobs of faithful in doubt? Any other charity would be shunned for such apparent deception, but many are willing to give them the benefit of the doubt if they would just stop avoiding the questions and answer them.
