Left-Wing Radicalism in the Church: The Catholic Campaign for Human Development

Capital Research Center ^ | August 28, 2009 | Matthew Vadum

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My September Foundation Watch is up on the Capital Research Center website.

It's called "Left-Wing Radicalism in the Church: The Catholic Campaign for Human Development."

Here's a summary:

Each November around Thanksgiving every Roman Catholic parish takes up a collection for the nonprofit Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), a program run under the auspices of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Last November, under intense pressure from Catholic parishioners, CCHD finally stopped collecting money for the fraud-ridden radical group ACORN. But the Bishops’ Conference continues to support other radical community activist groups with similar goals, such as the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) founded in Chicago by Saul Alinsky, the founding father of “community organizing.” President Obama, a self-professed community organizer, has ties to both ACORN and CCHD.

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The lay staff at the USCCB is loaded with far left Democrat socialists. The Executive Director in charge of the Campaign for Human Development, John Carr (http://www.usccb.org/comm/source/background.shtml#carr) is a former Hubert Humphrey acolyte who hated George Bush. He is typical of many others on that staff who view the funds contributed by local parishes as their personal slush fund for rewarding their favorite liberal groups under the guise of "social justice".

They funded ACORN with over $7 million in the last few years, over a million last year during the Obama campaign until they were exposed for the frauds they were.

The bishops who are very inexperienced in things financial and political tend to let the left wing staffers have their way, often ignorant of machinations of these staffers and the radical groups they fund.

USCCB does do some outstanding charitable work, but that does not excuse the behavior of these left wing opportunists. Parishioners would be wise to lay off contributions to the Campaign for Human Development until the bishops take control and cut off these political zealots.