Posted on 10/24/2008 8:28:53 PM PDT by OPS4
I don’t know how I missed this story, but apparently the USCCB has decided to cut off ACORN’s funding due to “financial irregularities.” ACORN was set to receive another $1.13 million of our second collection for the 2008 cycle.
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Excellent news. We all need to continue our fight to up end this group even though it is too late for the election and also too late for our economy (I am sure like any evil they will transform into some other name with the same agenda. But for now thank you Jesus :-) and let’s keep up the pressure!
There are much more worthy causes than ACORN for USCCB to be funding.
Money should go to institutions that are faithful to church teaching.
Video I’ve seen of ACORN leaders and members in red shirts and red caps reminds me of the left-wing goon squads who support Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
The ACORN leader shown in the video was clearly endorsing a candidate for president (Obama) who is not faithful to the most fundamental church teaching on the sanctity of human life.
May the liberals and their agenda be pushed to the side in the church bureaucracy.
May the money go to the cause of Jesus Christ and those who are faithful to church teaching.
Very wise! Better to give to a specific Catholic organization of your choice. Whether it’s prolife, like American Life League, or one of the missions, or a particular religious order (be careful of the nuns, many are now new age goddess worshippers but still are photographed in habits before a crucifix for their fund-raising literature), or C-Fam, whatever. The best charities doing really good work are not getting any money from the Church. The Bishop campaigns all go to global warming workshops and lawyers for illegals and sex-ed for second graders and great stuff like that.
For example, The Archdiocese of Military Services, the priests and chaplains serving our troops around the world, is desperately in need of money (and priests). I’d send them $100 over my bishop any day — support Catholic evangelism, the Church and your Country all at once!
**For example, The Archdiocese of Military Services, the priests and chaplains serving our troops around the world, is desperately in need of money (and priests). **
Excellent suggestion. Probably that many people don’t even know about it.
Good Job!
Many “conservative” Catholics did know and have been protesting this for over 10 years. The reason for the sudden action by the bishops is the ACORN issue is now dangerous, it’s out in the open and recognized by everyone as bad. There still are a few hundred other organizations they need to stop funding.
I give no money to the Archdiocese, I would consider it immoral to do so, and have had very difficult and in depth conversations with my priest about fulfilling my duty to support the Church, and how I can do that without giving one dime to any Archdiocesan program.
What I do is instead of putting money in collection plate, a percentage of which goes to the bishop, I make “anonymous grants” directly to my parish for specific needs they have (painting the building, books for the children, new altar cloths, etc) and then give the rest of my charity budget to REAL and PURELY CATHOLIC organizations like Human Life International.
We need to stop the gravy train to the bishops, and maybe they will realize their Democratic base is shifting to the right a bit, and if they want the bucks to keep flowing, they had better shift right as well.
Here they are, check it out! God bless our troops.
www.milarch.org
Excellent news!
I've been dumbfounded by this, too. First of all, I was stunned to learn that they receive federal money (that would be my very own tax dollars!). And the number of powerful foundations and non-profits channeling money their way would probably blow you away if you ever saw a list.
Why the Dominican Order and not other orders? Thanks for the response.
Glad the bishops are getting their acts together.
That remains to be seen. We could discourage voter fraud by treating ACORN perpitrators as the low life scum they are simply by treating each fraudulent registtation as a separate felony and put some of these clowns in prison for a thousand years.
The suspension covers all 40 ACORN affiliates nationwide that had been approved for $1.13 million in grants for the funding cycle that started July 1, 2008.
I don't have any of my lists available on this computer, but I have seen long lists of beneficiaries of Catholic bishops' largesse. So many of them have ties to left wing causes that I simply stopped giving money to our annual Archbishops appeal. I stopped it in the mid-nineties, I think it was. I won't start again until I'm satisfied I'm not abetting treason or, for that matter, any group that advocates political views with which I disagree.
I feel the same way about United Way.
Thank you, Jesus!
Last week, the priest told me that he didn't have the right to tell anyone how to vote. From the pulpit.
dsc,unfortuately oveer time they have given 7 million to them.
McCloud released information showing that CCHD funded more than 320 ACORN projects with grants totaling more than $7.3 million during the last 10 years. He said the community organization also had received funds since early in CCHD’s history.
CCHD’s Web site reveals the campaign gave about $1.11 million to 40 ACORN affiliates in 2007 and $1.17 million to 45 affiliates in 2006.
1. Never new they were giving $ which come from donations in the pews to this communist organization.
2. The USCCB better keep ACORN away from Catholic money from this point forward. I, as with millions of other Catholics will be demanding more accountability as to where our dollars are going from now on.
ACORN’s extreme leftist ideologies are nothing new. Only after these notorious examples of financial and voter fraud are plastered in the MSM does the USCCB react. Someone inside of the USCCB has obviously had a political agenda up until now. Father Phlager (sp) must not be alone in the Catholic Church.
Good news that the USCCB stopped giving Catholic money to ACORN, but it simply cannot be that they suddenly discovered the true nature of ACORN. Someone/people within the USCCB has been approving this money for some time.
I’d like to know which of the clergy who is responsible for overseeing the disbursement of funds allowed for this to happen in the first place.
What other leftist groups are being allowed to siphen $ from the pockets of Catholics?
I think this should be the reason for digging deeper into the USCCB donations.
Woo-hoo!!!
I would also like to see the investigation of the Campaign for
human development from the very beginning. Who started it,
who were the influential bishops, why did it not stop funding, it was challenged through the years and nothing
was done. I was told by a local campaign representative that
the campaign was not allowed to give to Catholic organizations or causes. Years ago in the 1960s the
diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph provided funds to Saul
Alinski to send one of his lieutenants to agitate. I am not
sure but I think his last name was Lincoln. The head of Catholic Charities was the one who spearheaded this. He was
a priest and later became a bishop. The bishop is now dead.
I am convinced there is a connect here, though I cannot prove it.
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