IL Catholics Call for Boycott of the CCHD this Weekend

Read all that's out there and make up your own mind, but a pretty convincing case is finally being made far beyond the few "in the know" that have always avoided giving to the CCHD:

By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

When the Catholic Bishops of
the United States established the Campaign for Human Development in
1970, they mandated the Campaign to fund "such projects as voter
registration, community organizations, community-run schools,
minority-owned cooperatives and credit unions, capital for industrial
development and job training programs, and setting up rural
cooperatives." It was subsequently renamed the Catholic Campaign for
Human Development, with prohibitions on funding of projects that were
not in conformity with Catholic moral teaching.

The CCHD was
sold to Catholic parishioners with a slogan of "a hand up instead of a
hand out," but instead, CCHD has heavily invested in the political
organizing techniques of Saul Alinky, a Marxist organizer from Chicago
who founded the nationwide Industrial Areas Foundation, which in the
Chicago area is known as United Power. United Power has been financed
by various mainline Protestant churches and has made great inroads into
the Catholic Church in Chicago, recruiting parish ministers and
receiving funding from various parishes through dues and contributions.
For all practical purposes, United Power is an extension of the far
left wing of the Democrat Party...

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