CCHD - "$300k to Oil Spill Areas" - But Why???

This is the word from the USCCB.  The entire press release is here.  At first glance, it looks just fine. 

HOWEVER....

Sometimes things require a closer look.  I will quote the paragraph describing projected fund usage.  The emphasis (bold) that you will see in the quotes are mine.  Here it is.

The groups who receive the grants will use the funds to provide a voice for the fishermen and communities affected by the spill, coordinate with communities and emergency responders to document the damage, as well as insist on work to restore the damaged wetlands.

Think about those bolded words.  Sounds like "business as usual", right?  Particularly the last one is telling.  Note that the funds aren't going towards the actual recovery efforts themselves, but they're going for lobbying!  Who will be lobbied?  The government!  And with what funds will the government be expected to repair the wetlands?  Hint - hold onto your wallet.  The money that you'll be asked to contribute in the next CCHD collection will be used to raise your tax dollars - and not too much of that (if any) will go to actual relief efforts.

Now what's with all this "documentation" and "voice"?  This is all busywork for "community organizers."  What the USCCB described as the purposes of this $300k seems not to encompass even one of the Corporal Works of Mercy.

The CCHD (and perhaps the entire USCCB) should be dismantled immediately, before more money is squandered to the detriment of the Church and this nation.

Caution! Your Home Is A Slimy, Oily Mess!!!

At least it is, if you are not "recycling"!  Thus sayeth Msgr Paul Dudziak of St. Rose of Lima Church in Gaithersburg, MD.  He said, and I quote, "every home that is not recycling is like its own BP oil spill, trashing the earth."  And when was this inspired oracle delivered to the adoring throngs?  On Pentecost Sunday!  So the environmentalists hijack not only Lent (with their "lenten carbon fast") but now they exploit a major Church solemnity for their own ideological ends.

I thank my colleague at "A Washington DC Catholic" for alerting me to this, and suggest that you read his post.  (Also read his post from today; the Archdocesan Environmental Committee apparently wants us to "repent" for the Gulf oil spill.)  He stated that while he had the audio of the homily, he was unable to post it.  I communicated to him that I was able to do so.  He sent the file to me and I now make it available to you at this link.  Note: the "oil spill" gaffe occurs right at the beginning of the clip.  Msgr Dudziak goes on to lament violence, as well.  However, he focuses primarily on military activity (forgetting that not all force is violence), but of course is typically silent on the violence done in the first environment that humans know: the violence of abortion committed in what should be the safest environment, that of a mother's womb.

Some of you might recall that this blog was inaugurated last September.  One of my first posts had to do with my own visit to St. Rose.  I urge you to revisit that post.  That will make it easier to conceive how progressive propaganda thinly disguised as a homily can proceed from that place.