Richmond, VA-based Commonwealth Catholic Charities is under federal investigation after staffers provided a 16-year-old illegal immigrant with transportation and signed a consent form for an abortion — two months after helping her implant a contraceptive. Federal law prohibits using federal funds to pay for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or when the woman’s life is in danger. Virginia law and federal guidelines require those younger than 18 to have parental consent for an abortion.
How did this happen? CCC is at a bit of a loss to explain, but the Washington Post story suggests it may have had something to do with the fact that most of CCC’s staff is not Catholic.
Accordingly, it should be noted that the first goal of Barack Obama’s proposed multi-billion dollar faith-based initiative would be to “train the trainers† specifically funding large national nonprofits, such as Catholic Charities, to train the small groups on how to apply for government aid. Indeed, Catholic Charities was mentioned twice by name for praise in Obama’s speech on the proposal. For that matter, Catholic Charities collaborates with the Campaign for Human Development — where Catholic charity meets Saul Alinsky’s radicalism and where Obama got his start as a community organizer.
It should also be recalled that Obama’s new Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships plans to strictly require that religious groups not hire based on religion — as Catholic Charities apparently has not.ÂÂ
It thus should not be surprising that Obama sees Catholic Charities as integral to his long-held vision of teaching and funding a new generation of politicized preachers like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Fr. Michael Pfleger.
Yeah, I was pretty sickened by that, Karl. Meanwhile, you’ll be glad to know there’s more refining going on.
Interesting how “whistleblowers” just crop up in most industries, but never in non-profits.
This is a lot the same as corruption just where you kill fetuses and get paid by Baracky instead of just stealing. That’s sort of like change I guess.
Feti?
Scraping Foeti from the Political Machine [punk reference]
/nevermind
Oh yeah. Foeti. It just wasn’t coming to me.
Yeah, I have to think that the staffers that did this weren’t Catholic or too squishy or “progressive” to care if they were thrown out of the church, abortion is not taken lightly in the Catholic Church. I’d be shocked if more heads didn’t roll at this charity and a thorough investigation of other churches and charities occurred.
I don’t understand. Am I paying for this organization when I give money to the Church?
From the Catholic Campaign for Human Development website:
“… Institutional Change — CCHD’s mission “is to address the root causes of poverty in the U.S.” In Catholic Social Teaching, the causes of poverty are understood to be an aspect of “social sin” rooted in our social and economic structures and institutions. In their economics pastoral, the bishops of the United States describe “A New American Experiment†that calls for “an imaginative vision of the future that can help shape economic arrangements in creative new ways.†(295) This will require alternative economic structures that will “expand economic participation, broaden the sharing of economic power, and make economic decisions more accountable to the common good.” (297)
In addition to just wages, CCHD seeks a just balance of individual- and community-held assets. In Rerum Novarum this vision was described in the following way: “If working people can be encouraged to look forward to obtaining a share of the land, the consequence will be that the gulf between vast wealth and sheer poverty will be bridged over, and the respective classes will be brought nearer to each other.†(47) Much more recently in 1963, Pope John XXIII wrote in Pacem in Terris, “The right of private property is an effective means for safeguarding the dignity of the human person and for the exercise of responsibility in all fields; it strengthens and gives serenity to family life, thereby increasing the peace and prosperity. …”