Silly me. I thought that money we donate at church would be used by Catholic organizations to help the needy and disadvantaged.
Note to self: collections slated for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) should be avoided.
If I want to donate money to ACORN, I will donate money to ACORN. If I don’t want to donate money to ACORN, then I can’t donate to the CCHD either.
What other non-Catholic organizations are getting my money?
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Good grief..thanks for posting this. I wonder where the money really is going…
We haven’t given to CCHD since our oldest was 2. Even then, charities it supported were very often dubious.
I know, we have started to give our money directly to people or organizations instead of through a third party.By the way. I nominated you for the I love your blog award. Directions are on my blog on the last post that I posted.
I emailed the link to that story to our parish office. I wonder how many local churches know about this? (I bet, very few.)
Michelle,Next week I will start my monthly meetings with my parish clients. I will let you know what I learn about their awareness of this disgrace. I saw this on the Drudge Report in a link to a Washington Times article. I just checked back and could not find it on Drudge. It has either been taken down or I have gone blind.Dad R.
Like Juli, I have stopped giving my charitable donations through third parties. Instead of contributing to the fund for retired religious, I give directly to specific orders or to a specific fund for retired diocesan priests. I believe that collection is coming up this weekend! Whether it is the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Combined Federal Campaign, or the United Way, these charity brokers will often use my money for projects that I would never support.
Completely distressing. I don’t think we give to that, though. We stopped on Catholic Charities for sure. But thanks for bringing that up. DH is going to be all riled up on that one! ACORN, ugh!
Wow, now I’ll have to quiz some folks on this.