No money from me for the CCHD...

     This Sunday, the second collection at Mass in many parishes across America will again be used for the USCCB's Catholic Campaign for Human Development, "the domestic anti-poverty, social justice program of the US Catholic bishops."
     For 40 years, the CCHD has collected more than $450 million from Catholic collections. But the donations do not go directly to those in material need for things like food, clothing or shelter.
     No. The money goes to fund a vast network of community organizers, working for societal, political and economic transformation, in the name of "social justice."
     Community organizing is a method of social agitation, confrontation and infiltration. Taking its lead from the teachings of communist Saul Alinsky, it is intended to fan the flames of discontent in communities, for the purpose of seizing public power.
     "Saul Alinsky explained his community organizing tactics in his book Rules for Radicals. His game plan was to divide the community into the Haves and the Have Nots, make the Have Nots believe they are unjustly treated by the Haves, build resentment against the American social and economic system, use church congregations to mobilize street agitators, and lobby government for higher taxes and big-spending welfare programs in order to confiscate the wealth and power of the Haves and turn it over to the Have Nots. Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer, "the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom." Discover the Networks 
     Over the years, the CCHD collection has funded some organizations that conduct or support activities that directly oppose the teaching of the Catholic faith. Their connection to Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, Call to Action, and ultimately, George Soros, are troubling.
     Under fire from faithful Catholic groups, the CCHD has made some reforms. But the USCCB's reform document highlights groups that still hold dubious alliances. The Coalition of Imolokee Workers is a member of the US Human Rights Network; FOCUS is part of the PICO network; and COPS is one of Saul Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation projects. Those are just the first three grantees promoted in the CCHD reform document.
     There may be some CCHD grantees this year that will do some good work, especially if the list includes (for the first time ever) crisis pregnancy centers. But the CCHD has not yet made available the list of recipients for this year's grants.
     Let me be clear... Many people involved in the CCHD may have good intentions; but, it is my belief that no bad tree can yield good fruit (Matthew 7). For me, the Saul Alinsky genesis has tainted the whole project.
     That said, in and around every archdiocese, there are some very worthy local charities whose good works support the true teaching of the church. This year, once again, I will choose one of those, and give to it directly.
     To learn about the roots of the CCHD, its ties to Saul Alinsky, and the evil it has abided for 40 years, click here, to watch Real Catholic TV's March broadcast of Catholic Investigative Agency.
     For more recent information, see the report from the group Reform CCHD Now, here, and see a list of links to CCHD-related articles from LifeSite News here, especially this one about the apparent backpedaling on the CCHD reforms in Chicago, and this one, regarding the CCHD praise for the Coalition of Imolokee Workers.

     They said to one another, "Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire." They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth." LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men had built. Then the LORD said: "If now, while they are one people, all speaking the same language, they have started to do this, nothing will later stop them from doing whatever they presume to do. Let us then go down and there confuse their language, so that one will not understand what another says." Thus the LORD scattered them from there all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. Genesis 11

     I pray that this network be defunded by Catholics, and scattered by God.
     Please pray for the CCHD program, that true reform will happen, and that any money received will be faithfully used for the glory of God.