RC bishops backing off

The RC bishops have cut off two more organizations — ACORN being already tossed under the prelatial bus — from Catholic Campaign for Human Development funding.

One of them is

the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), which has been funded for the last four years, and was set to receive $30,000 this year.  The CPA’s 2008 voters guide (on the BVM website here and here) urged Californians to vote against enshrining the true definition of marriage in the state’s constitution (proposition Eight) and requiring parental notification for minors seeking abortions (proposition 4)

The other:

the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN) . . . which has been funded for the last five years and was to receive $40,000 this year.  LACAN has promoted same-sex ‘marriage’ and actively supports contraception and the morning-after pill through a clinic at the Downtown Women’s Center.

They were both fingered by the Bellarmine Veritas Ministry, “a Catholic grass-roots organizing ministry dedicated to truth and action,” which also says this about itself:

Unlike community organizing groups which bring men together to create faceless political power and revolution, we recognize the inherent dignity of each person created by God . . . .  We do not strive to create power . . . .  Instead, we seek to instill the fearless hope that comes from walking in light and truth.

CCHD director Ralph McCloud announced himself “shocked” at being informed of the un-Catholic proclivities of the two now-defunded organizations.  But it’s a claim that Churchmouse Campanologist (“Ringing the bells for Christian traditions and getting our story out there. If we don’t, who will?”) found hard to swallow:

(A) 26-page list on the USCCB website . . . [has] all the hallmarks of organisations no true Catholic would wish to donate to. 

It includes multiple references to:

‘Industrial Areas Foundation’ [Alinsky legacy from its beginnings], ‘PICO’ [People Improving Communities through Organizing, mostly by churches], ‘community organisation’?  It must follow, therefore, that these groups espouse a leftist philosophy and will support leftist programmes, whether sexual, social or political.  

Sounds right to me.  RC bishops have been captured?