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Response to the CCHD
2009 September 22
As reported by LifeSiteNews.com, the CCHD is defunding at least two of the grantees detailed in our recent national campaign. We are pleased with this first step and regard it as a sign of good faith by the CCHD. However, we remain concerned with how these organizations were cleared to receive funding in the first place. When Catholics entrust their donations to the CCHD they should feel assured that not a single penny will be used to fund groups which promote abortion or any other practice which runs contrary to both the moral and natural law. As it stands, we have no such assurance. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have made their way to such groups and if the current standards remain in place, the risk remains for the future.
bellarmineveritasministry.org/Until the CCHD implements a more robust set of guidelines and filters, we must unfortunately continue to advise Catholics to withhold their donations from the CCHD. We are hopeful that the CCHD will indeed take this next step and we look forward to the day when we can report this good news to our readers.