Posted on 07/31/2013 2:20:35 PM PDT by topher
CHICAGO, IL, July 31, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) – After a group of eight Catholic Democrats published an open letter in the Chicago Tribune Monday accusing Cardinal Francis George of political blackmail for threatening to withhold charitable funding from an immigrant group that recently came out in favor of same-sex “marriage,” the cardinal fired back in a statement, calling the letter’s signers cynical and “intellectually and morally dishonest.”
The Chicago diocese’s Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) had been contributing between $25,000 and $30,000 each year to several member groups of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) to aid humanitarian efforts in poverty-stricken neighborhoods. But since CCHD funding agreements are contingent on recipients not supporting agendas contrary to the Catholic faith, Cardinal George recently notified member groups that CCHD will be unable to provide any more funding unless the groups sever ties with the ICIRR and publicly renounce support for gay nuptials.
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http://www.archchicago.org/news_releases/news_2013/stmnt_130729.html
“Donors to the CCHD give to this anti-poverty organization with the understanding that their money will be passed on to organizations that respect the teachings of the Catholic faith,” wrote the cardinal. “Organizations that apply for funds do so agreeing to this condition.
Gay Marriage is not a teaching of the Catholic Church. End of story...
Good for him! Many Catholics are very upset about how their money is being used to fund organizations that may call themselves “Catholic” or be the sort of squishy left-wing thing the bishops like, but actually oppose the teachings of the Church.
Few bishops come out and do anything about it, unfortunately.
typical INGRATES.
Give them money and then when you don’t give them more money they publicly attack you.
And who is blackmailing whom?
The money that should have gone to groups fighting “gay marriage” instead went to these lefty groups that support “gay marriage”. Catholic Campaign for Human Development: Shut it down, padlock the front doors, and fumigate the office!
Who replaced the old Cardinal George with this guy?
"It is intellectually and morally dishonest to use the witness of the church's concern for the poor as an excuse to attack the church's teaching on the nature of marriage. "Jesus is merciful, but he is not stupid. He knows the difference between right and wrong. Manipulating both immigrants and the church for political advantage is wrong."
Cardinal Francis George
Archbishop of Chicago
This is a wonderful quote.
It's something I could blazon on my escutcheon.
If I had a really, really big escutcheon.
**“intellectually and morally dishonest.”**
That’s dimocrats for you!
Test-driving a new tagline. I got it from Oscar Wilde.
Sort of like complaining that the person you are going to murder won’t pay for the bullets and pistol you will be using to do it.
I’m about to emblazon that on my profile page
But.....doesn’t the Cardinal want the immigrants to LIKE him?
“Jesus is merciful, but he is not stupid”
Shazam.
America desperately needs more leaders like Cardinal George!
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