The Bigger Scandal: Catholic Church Funding of ACORN
The evidence of Catholic collaboration with Marxist and “progressive” networks is substantial.
The Main Steam Media is of course not following this story, but neither is the Conservative media. It is of course understandable because millions of Catholics would be offended by this story. I have however noticed that my post on Pope Benedict’s BC NEWS | Europe | Pope calls for a UN ‘with teeth’ (Do make sure you go to An American Idiot for full coverage of the Pope’s encyclical, post titled: Charity in Truth: The Pope Calls for One World Government
has gotten a lot of hits. In fact it is one of my top posts. This surprised me even tho I did post it, but I didn’t see a connection of the Catholic Church with the Progressive movement. The Progressives to my mind have issues that are in direct opposition to those traditionally held by the Church.
Obama has strong ties to ACORN, they were originally established through the U.S. Catholic Church, which has also funded ACORN and similar organizations to the tune of millions of dollars.
…..the truth has been seeping out in mysterious ways. In a Politico.com story about Barack Obama’s friendly meeting with the Pope, reporter Josh Gerstein featured information that made it clear that the President’s Catholic connection goes back to his days as a community organizer and that Obama’s associates understand and appreciate this fact.
Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough was quoted as saying that Obama’s work as an organizer on the South Side of Chicago “was funded partly” by the “Catholic Church campaign for human development…” He was referring to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), an annual collection authorized by the U.S. Catholic Bishops which is advertised as a charity to “break the vicious cycle of poverty” but in reality has funded left-wing political organizations such as ACORN to the tune of millions of dollars.
McDonough , a former Senior Fellow at the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP), was the moderator of a May 10, 2006, CAP event on “How Catholic Progressives View the Role of Faith in Governance.”
Filling in more of the details of the story that Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough referred to, conservative Catholic writer and activist Stephanie Block has documented that Obama was lead organizer in Chicago for the Alinskyian Developing Communities Project. It received a $40,000 Catholic Campaign for Human Development grant in 1985 and another $33,000 grant in 1986.
The Capital Research Center has just published “Left-wing Radicalism in the Church,” a major report on this topic by Matthew Vadum.
The BigGovernment.com videos of questionable ACORN activities have outraged taxpayers and members of Congress. Many Catholics will be angered by the revelations-if Fox News dares to publicize the evidence-of how their money has been funneled to ACORN and similar organizations by the official Catholic hierarchy.
The evidence of Catholic collaboration with Marxist and “progressive” networks is substantial. A documentary, “The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy,” notes that “Alinsky envisioned an ‘organization of organizations,’ comprised of all sectors of the community-youth committees, small businesses, labor unions, and, most influential of all, the Catholic Church.” A website devoted to the documentary cites the Catholic Campaign for Human Development as one of several organizations “actively practicing Alinsky’s techniques.”
The Citizen’s Handbook to radical organizing notes that “Much of IAF [Industrial Areas Foundation] organizing occurs through Christian churches particularly the Catholic church.”
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops cut off funding to ACORN last November, citing allegations of corruption at the organization. But money to other Alinsky-style groups has not been terminated.
If ACORN’s federal funding is cut-off-and that’s still a big “if”-some conservative Catholics believe that the damage has already been done. They say the proof is in the fact that most Catholics voted for Obama. They say the proof is in the fact that Obama was welcomed as a conquering hero when he visited Notre Dame, the premier Catholic university in the U.S. (If you will recall this is where the symbols that signify the name of Jesus Christ were behind Obama’s head during his speech so he had them cover up with a black cloth! BB)
Father J. Bryan Hehir, who in 1983 delivered a series of lectures at the far-left Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) entitled, “Matthew, Marx, Luke, and John” illustrates the continuing left-wing drift of the Catholic Church in foreign affairs. Hehir, who served on the staff of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops in Washington, D.C., from 1973-1992 and now teaches at Harvard, appeared on an October 15, 2007, Center for American Progress panel on “pursuing the global common good.” Obama’s adviser McDonough was also on the panel.
Some of the advance publicity has focused on figures such as Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi showing up at the U.N. But take a look at who’s already there. The presidency of the U.N. General Assembly has been transferred from a Communist Catholic Priest, Miguel D’Escoto, who received the Lenin Peace Prize from the old Soviet Union, to a Libyan government official, Ali Treki.
Yes, I am surprised by these revelations. But if you will go to the referred sites the evidence is overwhelming. Now we must remember that Catholicism dominates Central and South America where the illiteracy rate is extremely high and people are greatly swayed by the words of the Pope. See the big picture here? Protestant Christianity is going to be squeezed between Marxist Catholicism and Islam in our future world. That is unless we manager to beat back and defeat Marxism in the United States. BB
