Cardinal Dolan is a very friendly and likable guy, but he seems to have some serious and dangerous blind spots, including these involving "anti-Catholic Catholic" celebrities who openly flout and thumb their noses at certain Catholic teachings on faith and morals and intrinsic evils, including abortion, homosexual behaviors, etc.
One thought that has crossed my mind before in dealing with Cardinal Dolan and the USCCB on some of these very important issues is
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The USCCB often bundles their CSA funding campaigns with the CCHD funding campaigns, which have included funding for pro-abortion and pro-homo-behavior groups.
Some priests have said they will divert regular collection basket money to their CSA and CCHD funds, and my thought was to maybe consider specifically directing our "tithes, almsgiving, and other offerings/collections" to specific kinds of organizations, such as EWTN, various Catholic Radio groups, various good organizations who help the poor and hungry, etc., as opposed to the favorite funds of the U.S. Bishops.
I think the U.S. Bishops will actually listen to
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when they might not listen to anything else.
Dr. Brian, I give very modestly to my parish. I haven't given to my Diocese for years, even though it's a pretty conservative, morally straight and worthy Diocese, and Bishop Stika is pretty Catholic.. But I don't give anything precisely because the Diocese still trucks with CCHD.
I confine my charitable Catholic giving to specific (local, small) organizations that don't outsource, subcontract, share, liaise, or form coalitions with other organizations, or through-put money, goods or services in any way.
"Structures of injustice," as they say? The USCCB itself is a structure of injustice, IMHO.