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....."According to a Catholic News Service article of October 16, 2008, ACORN had received $7.3 million from the Catholic Campaign over the previous ten years, making it one of group’s largest supporters. Catholic Campaign grants to ACORN were discontinued in 2008, following its embezzlement and voter registration scandal."... *skip* ...."But California Catholic Daily has found at least two instances in the city of San Francisco alone where the current criteria are not being “actively enforced.” On July 1, 2009, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development published a list of their 2009-10 grant recipients. These grants were made after the new...

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is the Plymouth Duster of the U.S. Bishops Conference, a relic of early-1970s social activism that -- except for its value as a fashion statement -- was a disappointment when it was launched and hasn't improved with age. Yesterday we were given our official annual spadeful of the 40-year-old rhetoric: The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) distributed more than $9.5 million in grants to local organizations working to overcome poverty in the United States. The 2007, grants, totaling $9,578,000, will be used by 314 projects in 46 states, the District of Columbia and...

The director of a U.S. Catholic archdiocese ministry wants to put President George W. Bush on trial for war crimes because of his Iraq policy. In his most recent newsletter, Frank Fromherz, of the Peace and Justice Commission for the Portland Archdiocese in Oregon urged like-minded Catholics to back an ecumenical group's request that "the International Criminal Court indict and prosecute our own president as a war criminal." Fromherz and the commission's other two employees lost their jobs this week along with 15 others in a round of archdiocese layoffs attributed to budget cuts. But Portland Archbishop John G. Vlazny...

Please forgive this vanity. My parish is again asking for donations to the Campaign for Human Development. Does anyone know if they ever cleaned up their act, or are they still helping to support pro-abortion groups?

In Case Californian Catholics are Wondered Where their Catholic Campaign for Human Development Donations are Going: Fighting Wal-Mart and Embracing Sin 1/31/2004 6:52:00 PM - The Tidings CCI NOTES: In case you didn't notice what CCHD funded Industrial Areas Foundation is up to, the LA Diocese just changed the "four pillars of the Church" from the Seven Sacraments, The Creed, The Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer to liberation theology's four pillars, "Common Ground," "Seamless Garment," "Building Bridges," and "Consistent Ethic of Life." The TIDINGS, the Diocesan paper of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Friday, January 30, 2004, 'People of...