Shall We Call This "Station-Gate"?

Below is the take of Real Catholic TV regarding the juvenile antics of CCHD, first in their misuse of the Stations of the Cross to trumpet their left-wing cronies. Then when they're caught with hand in the proverbial cookie jar, they try to remove the evidence. Here is Michael Voris..

Open Letter to CCHD and USCCB

The open letter copied below was just now emailed to Ralph McCloud and John Carr
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Open Letter to the Directors and Staff of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development in Particular, and to Those of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops as a Whole
Ladies and gentlemen:
For many years now, monies donated to the CCHD have been funneled to groups that have actively worked to trivialize Church teachings on the life issues (abortion, euthanasia, homosexual behavior, various abuses of embryonic children) in favor of causes favored by left-wing elements in high places (such as supposed “climate change”, “poverty”, “health care reform”,etc). In some cases these groups have allied themselves with those who seek to actively undermine the Church on life-issue matters. Despite any pretenses that you may attempt to offer, you are well aware of our deep grievances with you on these matters. It is no stretch of the imagination to suggest that the election of the most pro-abortion President in the history of this country would not have been possible without the financial backing of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and the recipients of CCHD grants. However, should there still be some in your organization who insist on feigning ignorance, we invite them to peruse the following websites and blogs and to follow their documentation.
http://www.reformcchdnow.com/
www.all.org
http://bellarmineveritasministry.org/
www.catholicmediacoalition.org
and our own http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.com

For years now, concerned Catholics have been pleading with you to stop the funding of these aberrant groups, most notably ACORN. Only when the embezzlement scandal of the Rathke brothers broke (along with voter registration fraud allegations) did the CCHD cease funding of ACORN. However, funding and other support of other anti-God organizations continues.

Recently your support of left-wing organizations took on an offensive and even blasphemous dimension as the CCHD hijacked and attempted to deform the Stations of the Cross to be celebrations of some of these anti-Church outfits. I need not go into the disgusting details in this letter, as they are already exposed on our blog as well as others. Of course you were already aware of that. Hours after the first expose went online, you pulled your so-called “stations” from your website. You did so with no notice nor apology for offense caused, indicating that this removal was just another sorry attempt at damage control.

Happily, though, your attempt was a failure and the profaned “stations” are available for all of the world to see. And what do they see? They see that the USCCB is still supporting organizations whose philosophies and governing members are openly at odds with the Magisterium on the non-negotiable life issues. These “stations”, and their subsequent disingenuous removal adds resolve to many of us as we call upon His Holiness to dissolve the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and in particular, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Should you be interested at all in restoring any shred of goodwill, we urge you to post an unequivocal apology on your website, apologizing for the support of any and all left-wing “community-organizing” outfits, making plain that you will immediately cease any and all types of support for the same. You should then support only those organizations that uphold the Church’s teachings on the life issues and who perform the various Works of Mercy – both Spiritual as well as Corporal.

Please be advised that this letter is open and even now appears on our blog. Any replies from you to us will likewise be posted thereon.

Another USCCB Partnership with Pro-Abortion Groups

On March 21st (Saturday), Roger Cardinal Mahoney will be the principal celebrant at a Mass at St Aloysius Church to support "immigration reform".  Then the attendees are expected, uh, invited to participate in the "March for America: Change Takes Courage and Faith" shindig on the Mall.  I saw this in the parish bulletin today, which suggests a visit to http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/ for further information.

That website is owned by the USCCB.  The march is being honchoed by many organizations.  Oddly enough (maybe not so oddly), the USCCB site seems to be rather cagey about divulging the names of its partners.  However, when I googled the march, I found one of the others' website.  That site is http://www.reformimmigrationforamerica.org/.  On that one appears a list of the usual suspects of organizations supporting baby murder and gay lifestyle.  Some are:

• AFL-CIO
• CASA de Maryland
• Center for American Progress
• La Raza
• Phoenix Progressive Democrats of America

You get the idea.  Once again, the USCCB makes no bones about its own left-wing procliviites. The "justice for immigrants" site should be renamed "injusticeforunbornimmigrants", as some of these organizations refer their clients to abortionists to "take care of their problems." 

Pelosi Admits Hell Bill Is For Freeloaders

Nancy "Pope" Pelosi, in an interview on March 11th with Rachel Maddow, gave us a very candid (and perhaps unintentional) glimpse into her vision of the "people's paradise", the "shangri-la" that she claims will come to pass should the Obama Hell Bill pass the House.  Now remember - she's the gal who told us that "we have to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it".  Now maybe we do have a sordid idea.

She said (and this no joke!), "Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance."  Well, let's think about some other things.  What she's advocating is that if some flighty individual wants to release their "inner abstract artist", they can do so and have their medical care paid by - who?   Well, look in the nearest mirror!  That's right!  Pope Pelosi is stating that these folks who might fancy themselves to be "artists" have carte-blanche permission to freeload off those of us who are responsible enough to work and to support ourselves and our own families.  Such is her vision of America!  Is that your vision?  Read more at the Washington Examiner.

TO THE LEFT-WINGERS AT THE USCCB  Please pay close attention to the following!  Assimilate this, learn this and love the following!  Pope Pelosi's warped vision is not - NOT!- what we mean by "Christ's preferential option for the poor"!  GOT THAT?

While the USCCB Induces the Church to Careless Sleep

This video is from a group that appears to be named "Casting Crowns".  The singers rebuke this country for, among other things, misplaced concern for trees while facilitating the murders of babies.  Since so much of the USCCB's misguided efforts seem to be focused on "climate change", "environmental justice" and other such tripe, I suggest they heed the message.  Until then, we need to cut off their cash supply.

CCHD Profanes Stations of the Cross - Then Tries to Hide Their Malfeasance

The lines in green were writen last night as I started this post.

The "lenten carbon fast" was bad enough.  Now we have the CCHD turning the Stations of the Cross into props to push the agendas of their left-wing anti-life allies  http://www.usccb.org/lent/CCHD-Groups-WayoftheCrossStationsTextBooklet.pdf

Well, a lot happened between then and now.  The Reform CCHD Now Coaltion did their own analysis.  Oddly enough, (ahem!) just a short while later, the above link to the perverted "stations" became defunct!  Well!  Whatever could have happened?  I think we all know the answer to that now, don't we?

I had opened the page last night and left it open.  After receiving "discomike's" comment below, I saved that pdf to my computer, so that I could make it available to you right here!  Save it to your own computer if you wish, but this one ain't goin' nowhere! 

Now let's get down to business!  These "stations", rather than contemplating Our Lord's Passion and Death, celebrate various left-wing and/or anti-life cabals.  For the second excuse of a station, CCHD lauds the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition.  They do partner and support abortion-rights activists.  For instance, the OVEC website links to this website, which makes quite an admission.  We read, "The moral arguments about abortion rarely consider the physical limits of the planet, but if they did, and if abortion were put into the context of the long history of human attempts to avoid starvation by regulating population growth, we might come to a different conclusion about what "pro-life" really means."  Read the whole thing.  The pro-abort folks know that their arguments for baby-murder are ringing hollow, and this frosts them!  By the way - look at the OVEC logo.  Doesn't the outline resemble an - acorn?

The third thing celebrates Baltimore's United Workers' Association.  They have allied themselves with Healthcare Now of MD, that is actively pulling for the Obama Hell bill, abortion and all.  By the way - if you want a look at who the left-wing major players are in Maryland, check out the website of "Progressive Maryland".

Station 5 tells us about Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (MOSES).  Their website reveals yet another proponent of the Obama Hell bill.  They are Gamaliel affiliates.  Station 6 ballyhoos about the Pima County Interfaith Council: who happen to be affiliates of the Industrial Areas Foundation.

I will now refer you to the analysis of Pewsitter and Reform CCHD Now.  Once again, the CCHD demonstrates that it does not deserve one red penny from any Catholic.

Some Additional Thoughts On Post Immediately Below This

I just watched the "CIA" episode for the second time.  If you watched it at least once, you'll notice that one of the prominent recipients of CCHD money was an outfit called the Midwest Academy, started by Helen Booth.  This "academy" is an unabashed school for leftist radicals.  Her husband, Paul Booth, was a speaker at the USCCB "Social Ministry" meeting that I had hoped would have been snowed out.

Now let's jump back a few months, to events particularly relevant to Montgomery County and Baltimore City (and in increasing numbers of localities throughout the US).  As we are all too painfully aware, the pro-life pregnancy centers are under attack by NARAL, as NARAL tries to label them as buffoons.  I stand by my analogy of likening NARAL to the Nazis forcing stars upon the Jews, by the way.

If you recall some of the testimony that I posted on this blog, you'll hear one of the pregnancy center directors state that NARAL's plan is right out of a publication called "Choice Action Kit - Unmasking Fake Clinics - A Step by Step Guide".  All the strategy used by NARAL is spelled out in this 60+ page booklet.  I have a copy. 

In the front of this booklet, NARAL publishes some acknowledgements of gratitude.  Among those to whom NARAL expressed gratitude is - the Midwest Academy!  Now think for a moment!  This "academy" received CCHD money, meaning that Catholic dollars were channelled to a pro-abortion organization for the express purpose of facilitating baby murder!  "But that's in the past!", I hear the CCHD apologists whine.  No, it's not in the past, when the founder's husband addressed a "catholyc" convocation just one month ago!  Who are we kidding here?

Take a look at their website.  Now ask, "why are they addressing Catholics, and what business do they have receiving CCHD money?"

An In-Depth Look at Alinskyte Organizing - WIth Its Telling Ties!

Real Catholic TV has launched a new series called "Catholic Investigative Agency".  Its premiere was made available last evening.  In this episode, Michael Voris takes an in-depth look at the history of Alinsky, "community organizing" and its entanglement with the Catholic Church.

One aspect of all this network was previously unknown to me.  I knew Msgr Jack Egan was a disciple of Alinsky and was instrumental in the formation of the Campaign for Human Development.  He was in Chicago, of course.  What I did not know was that when Egan was finally booted out of the Chicago chancery, he was taken in by Father Hesbergh of Notre Dame!  In fact, Egan set up shop there for many years thereafter.  Doesn't that shed new light on the Obama commencement scandal?  It's no wonder now that our protests availed nothing!

Please watch it by clicking the link below.  It is about 1 hour and 20 minutes long (that's why it's not on youtube).  However, it is well worth the time spent.
http://www.realcatholictv.net/cia/

Obama's Spiritual Advisors

The National Catholic Reporter has given us a glimpse at the various spiritual advisors whom President Obama consults now, or has consulted in the past.  The article states that Obama is "frequently summoning the spirits of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and even St. Thomas Aquinas to frame his policies in moral terms."  I certainly hope that this isn't being done in the same fashion as did Hillary Clinton, when she reportedly consulted the "spirits of Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Ghandi".

He is reputed to consult with some "advisors" who were consulted by previous presidents.  Such luminaries include:

• Rabbi David Saperstein.  A Reformed Rabbi, Mr. Saperstein has sat on many boards - including that of People for the American Way.  We need go no further here.
• Sojourners founder Jim Wallis.  He lashed out at James Dobson when the latter dared to question the wisdom of voting for Obama.  Boys and girls, can we all say "payback"?
• Last but not least, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick.  Why, oh why, does it seem quite natural to list him along with these other two left-wingers?  The article states that the Cardinal has advised Obama about (wait for it!) - health care reform.  Now doesn't that explain a lot?

Other advisees/friends of the Cardinal include:

• The late Senator Edward M Kennedy.  I can only hope beyond hope that the Cardinal did, in accord with his high office, preach the truth to the now-deceased Kennedy before his death.  That hope looks dim.
• John Sweeney, former president of AFL-CIO.  Sweeney, who was president of a union that demanded contraceptive coverage for union workers, was frequently honored by McCarrick.  I led pickets of two of these functions.  By the way, if you haven't yet done so, watch the "CIA" clip from Real Catholic TV about Alinskyte organizing - and note Sweeney's role.

From 2 Timothy 4:3 - "For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine.  Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear."

Confirmation at St John the Evangelist (Silver Spring) Dumbed Down

At St. John the Evangelist Church (Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring MD) some school children received the Sacrament of Confirmation.  Archbishop Wuerl conferred the Sacrament.  I am told that during the homily, he asked the children if they had seen the video set that he produced that explained the Sacrament.  No one raised their hand.  I am also told that his homily was someone paltry, but that could be because he had to ad-lib "on the fly" after realizing that his educational effort with the video was not utilized, for whatever reason, by the sisters who taught that class.

The lack of attention to the archbishop's educational endeavor might explain the strange program cover that you see to the left.  It is the program used at that confirmation.  Right away, we see glaring hints as to what was taught (and not taught) to the children regarding this vital sacrament.  The Gifts of the Holy Spirit, at least some of them, are not the ones about which I was taught, and I suspect that goes for a good number of this blog's readership.  Count the ones in the program; I count eight.  But I learned of seven of them!

The last two in the program are the problematic ones.  They seem to be placed there as a substitute for "fear of the Lord."  You've got to admit that "wonder and awe" does sound nebulous at best.  The question comes to mind, "wonder and awe - of what??"

When I saw this, I pulled out my Baltimore Catechism to understand the precise definition of "fear of the Lord".  Question 178 is "Why do we receive the gift of fear of the Lord?"  Answer - "We receive the gift of fear of the Lord to fill us with a dread of sin on account of the goodness of God and the punishment He can inflict."  So now the light bulbs shine!  You see, we are an "easter people"!  We are a "kinder and gentler" type of catholycs.  We don't want to think about those nasty, judgmental things like..sin..and...punishment (as in hell?).  We want to believe that God is just a jolly, lovable ole' fuzz-ball who wouldn't be so mean-spirited to send anyone to hell.  So what if they're complicit in the slaughter of millions of unborn children?  All that really matters is that we are nice and sweet and we follow "lenten carbon fasts", etc.  Ad infinitum.  Ad nauseum.

I trust that the readers know I was being facetious about the "easter people" stuff.  Sadly, though, that is how many catholycs believe and live - blithely negligent of the dangers in which they place themselves and their unsuspecting children.  The truly tragic thing as that these children do not have a clue as to the tremendous graces that are theirs as a result of this sacrament.  Not knowing this, and the other truths of the Faith will make them all the more vulnerable to the malevolent forces in what passes for culture today.