Posted on 11/23/2014 4:12:50 AM PST by Biggirl
Good Morning. I have a brief question and it is in regards to the yearly second collection, called the "Campaign For Human Development" or CHD which takes place each weekend before Thanksgiving Day in Catholic parishes across the United States. This weekend my parish priest told parishoners there will be no second collection taken for CHD. I remember there were issues involving this collection over the last few years. Is there still issues with CHD going on?
My diocese is the Hartford, CT archdiocese and I believe the other parishes have taken up this collection.
Thank-you for your response and God Bless.
Depends whether or not one has a problem with their sacrificial charitable donations being funneled to various leftist causes such as community organizing and “environmental justice”. I stopped giving when I discovered that the contributions in our diocese were being funneled to democrat party front groups working directly against the interests of Catholics under the pretext of “social justice”.
“Since 2013, CCHD has invested nearly $2.5. million in community organizations to support environmental justice”.
I don’t do 2nd collections so I don’t have to worry.
Once Catholic Charities got into bed with Big Government, I knew it was over. Not a nickel, not a penny to CHD or anything outside of the parish coffers. Except Peter’s Pence, which I’m rethinking with this new Pope.
Have read online that there has been efforts to reform the CHD back in 2012. But from a quick read, the “issues in question” is still going on.
Several Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) grantees are affiliates of Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ), a worker advocacy group whose leadership is full of individuals who promote abortion and homosexuality, and many who are committed Marxist socialists, according to a report by the Lepanto Institute.
The groups on the grant lists have been told not to take stands that expressly undermine Church teaching so the $ can still flow.
One group in Baltimore, that received funding from the CCHD in 2013, has on its website the importance of voting and how it will affect marriage “equity” (HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE). Since they don’t actually state their position, and are only saying its important to vote, the money still flows.
Even the HuPo did an article a few days ago CCHD:
I had talked to a parish deacon and he said that it is a MANDITORY second collection, the CHD. The priest who is at the present time administering the parish is really, really is walking a very fine line himself.
I have had issues with this second collection myself the last few years now. But I also had wondered if there were any “reforms” at all going on.
Thanks so much for that link. I have stopped giving money to anything sponsored by the US Bishops Council, as well. Only my own parish gets money from me in collections.
I was a parish administrator and that second collection is scheduled annually by the bishops. The parish priest can’t refuse to participate in it publicly without disobeying his bishop. But the pastor doesn’t have to promote it either just go through the motions.
The CCHD, for forty years, has been run by hard-left radicals. It’s basically Joseph Bernardin’s gift to Saul Alinsky, that keeps on giving and giving and giving.
These are the type of people who DON’T KNOW anybody but fellow hard-left radicals.
They have been caught again and again and again and again giving money to pro-abortion, pro-gay groups. They can’t help themselves. Every time they get caught, the lefty bishop in charge issues an angry denial. When the evidence is just too, too damning, some cosmetic adjustment will be made.
A Catholic should give to Planned Parenthood before giving to CCHD. In fact, if you give to CCHD, some of the money will find its way to Planned Parenthood.
We do the first offering then if it for something important we do...but only for our church, not for big government.
“I was a parish administrator and that second collection is scheduled annually by the bishops. The parish priest can’t refuse to participate in it publicly without disobeying his bishop. But the pastor doesn’t have to promote it either just go through the motions.”
The parish pastor that is there now, at my parish, is what is called a pastor administrator, if memory serves me correct, is called that for one year, if he does well, becomes the head pastor,you would know more about titles. He put it out in the parish buletin that there will not be the second collection for CHD and simply to just rip up the envelopes. I was told by the deacon in a prior thread that it is a mandatory second collection. So in other words, he is in trouble with the Archbishop.
In other words, to make simple in one sentence what I just typed, the pastor administrator in question had “cut his nose in spite of his face” which means he will not get the head pastor position come next July. He did not obey the archbishop.
You got it. Said it better then me. :)
The trick now with the 2nd collection for CCHD is to disguise it or lump it in with two other worthwhile charities.
There must still be issues. My parish doesn’t do this collection. Hasn’t for years.
He might make it the pastor of that parish(Rector)anyway. There is a shortage of priests but chances are the Archbishop will have words with him. You can bet the progressives in your parish complained and went crying to the Archbishop. I wish more Catholic clergy were like your parish pastor. We need men and leaders like him so much.
Is the CCHD the only "Catholic" charity that is tainted in this way or are there others? Are there any which it is safe to donate to?
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