It is not just government money that is the problem.
I am aware of an offer to fund and teach a course on ethics and morality at a major Catholic University that was turned down.
The reason it was turned down was that it would offend large corporate donors to the school.
Money does influence situations that are contrary to God’s laws. It starts with small matters and continues into larger ones.
Temporary gains are attractive, but we need to see the bigger picture that God’s gifts are more beneficial.
The Church’s chief purpose is to bring people to God and salvation by spreading the Good News.
Helping the poor and the misguided is just one way to bring people to want to please God.
It depends on how the corporations thought it would affect them.
Were they worried because there’d be serious Catholic teaching on moral issues? Or were they worried because they thought it might be the usual “anti-capitalist,” anti-corporate and anti-American diatribe so beloved of the Catholic left...which now holds the dominant hand at universities.
Another thing that is happening is that Planned Parenthood has the money to pay teachers to teach sex ed in our high schools.
Keep your children out of all sex education classes!