Posted on 10/03/2008 1:48:05 PM PDT by OPS4
A Commentary on the Campaign for Human Development
Prepared for the Catholic Bishops of the United States
Prepared by the Wanderer Forum Foundation
I. Introduction: This commentary is submitted to the Catholic Bishops of the United States with respect to their possible consideration of changes in the organization, funding, and structure of the Campaign for Human Development (CHD). It is essential to note, however, the limited purpose and scope of this commentary:
1. This commentary is intended for the use of the Catholic Bishops of the United States in their consideration of the issues discussed. However, it will also be made available to other persons interested in these issues.
2. This commentary endeavors only to set forth facts with supporting documentation. It does not call into question the good faith or integrity of anyone involved in any way with the CHD. Nor does it infer in any way that any recipient of CHD funds has engaged in any misrepresentation or intentional misuse of funds in any way contrary to the stated purpose of CHD. This commentary does not in any way infer that any persons or organizations involved in these matters have engaged in conduct that is illegal in any way.
3. This commentary is entirely directed to issues of prudence and judgment rather than legality and good faith. The discussion herein is intended merely to raise legitimate questions about the advisability of changes in the structure, activities, and funding of the CHD.
II. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING: During the funding period of 1992-1995, CHD gave significant grants to community organizing efforts that implement many of the organizational techniques recommended by Saul Alinsky. Many community organizations patterned after Alinsky's recommendations recruit their membership either entirely or partially by institution. Included among this class of grantees are four national organizations: the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), Gamaliel, Pacific Institute for Community Organizing (PICO), and Direct Action and Research Training Center (DART). The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which is also patterned on Alinsky's organizational recommendations, recruits individual members. These five national organizations alone account for approximately 33% of current CHD expenditures annually. For purposes of illustration, it will be useful to note here some aspects of the operation of ACORN and the IAF. It would be reasonable for the bishops to consider:
The immediate cessation of all CHD funding to Alinsky-style, church-based community organizations.
The immediate cessation of all CHD funding to any organization that directly or indirectly promotes an agenda contrary to the social justice teachings of the Church.
The immediate cessation of all CHD funding to any organization that directly or indirectly aids and abets the culture of death.
The immediate cessation of CHD funding to any organization which requires institutional membership, including, for example, membership by parish. Community organizations which organize by institution, as opposed to individual membership, are inimical to the dignity of the individual and to his rights of conscience. No Catholic should ever be required to choose between membership in his parish and involuntary membership in a church-based community organization.
Requiring the CHD to prepare annual reports available that reflect the complete expenditure of CHD funds, both national and local, with detailed descriptions of all recipient organizations and a complete disclosure of their activities.
The creation of a committee of Catholic bishops to formulate new and more stringent guidelines for the CHD, and to set forth a higher standard for CHD grants. We further ask that this committee not only oversee future funding and future grantees, but remain open and attentive to the research of the laity, examining closely evidence of imprudent CHD funding.
VIII. Conclusion: This commentary is offered for the consideration of the bishops in a spirit of objective inquiry. As noted in Section I above, it is not intended to disparage any person or group or to question the good faith or legality of any positions taken by any persons or groups involved in these matters. Rather, we respectfully submit that it is time for a searching reconsideration by the bishops of the structure, funding, and activities of the CHD.
Read the full article It would be reasonable for the bishops to consider:
The immediate cessation of all CHD funding to Alinsky-style, church-based community organizations.
The immediate cessation of all CHD funding to any organization that directly or indirectly promotes an agenda contrary to the social justice teachings of the Church.
The immediate cessation of all CHD funding to any organization that directly or indirectly aids and abets the culture of death.
The immediate cessation of CHD funding to any organization which requires institutional membership, including, for example, membership by parish. Community organizations which organize by institution, as opposed to individual membership, are inimical to the dignity of the individual and to his rights of conscience. No Catholic should ever be required to choose between membership in his parish and involuntary membership in a church-based community organization.
Requiring the CHD to prepare annual reports available that reflect the complete expenditure of CHD funds, both national and local, with detailed descriptions of all recipient organizations and a complete disclosure of their activities.
The creation of a committee of Catholic bishops to formulate new and more stringent guidelines for the CHD, and to set forth a higher standard for CHD grants. We further ask that this committee not only oversee future funding and future grantees, but remain open and attentive to the research of the laity, examining closely evidence of imprudent CHD funding.
VIII. Conclusion: This commentary is offered for the consideration of the bishops in a spirit of objective inquiry. As noted in Section I above, it is not intended to disparage any person or group or to question the good faith or legality of any positions taken by any persons or groups involved in these matters. Rather, we respectfully submit that it is time for a searching reconsideration by the bishops of the structure, funding, and activities of the CHD.
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Information such as this has been posted here before. When the topic was under consideration, I checked to see what CHD was supporting in my Diocese. It wasn’t anything as bad as ACORN, but not anything I wanted to support, either.
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No but giving out th emoney was by thier consent.
Yes, they’ve given to some pretty radical organizations in the past.
Yeah, Chicago. Unnngh.
I stopped donating to the “Rice Bowl” collection in Lent a couple of years ago, when I found that 25% of the proceeds went to Whatever in the local diocese, although this wasn’t mentioned in the materials given to the parish children. Not that I object to bilingual music ministry workshops - we’re in Spanish music ministry, ourselves - but I don’t think it’s fair to let the children think all their donations go to hungry children in awful countries when they don’t.
Giving straight to pro-life ministry, or to the unmarried mothers’ home, or to parish needs seems to be the safest way to avoid supporting Goofballery.
Read this Obama’s implicated here.
The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost: Obama, ACORN, and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
9/28/2008 1:38:00 PM
By Stephanie Block
For nearly forty years, The Wanderer has followed the Catholic Campaign for Human Development’s funding of radical, left-wing political organizations, many of them carrying the brand of Saul Alinsky. The Wanderer also covered the first Call to Action conference - the months of “hearings” leading up to it, its orchestrated structure and contrived demands - and our reporters commented on the Alinskyian nature of it, not merely in its tactics but in its outcomes. In hindsight, we can see that organized dissent in the Church was a product of organized parishes, filled with Alinskyian-trained laity.
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is responsible for that.
It is also responsible, in some part, for the fact that forty years later, we have a virulently pro-abortion, pro-homosexual presidential candidate whose principle political training has been in Alinskyian organizing. While he - Barak Obama - was lead organizer in Chicago for the Developing Communities Project, it received a $40,000 Catholic Campaign for Human Development grant in 1985 and a $33,000 grant in 1986.
http://www.catholiccitizens.org/views/contentview.asp?c=48125
Catholics finally figured out they were being used.
Excellent!
As a practicing Catholic, I LOVED your comments. ;-)
ACORN is a dangerous, anti-American group.
County rejects large number of invalid voter registrations (ACORN)
The Times of Northwest Indiana | October 02, 2008 | Bill Dolan
Posted on 10/03/2008 2:39:10 AM PDT by southlake_hoosier
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096472/posts
"And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America." Rich Lowry on Sarah.
ACORN has been exposed lebenty-seven times and are operating in more cities now than ever.
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