Loosey-goosey with viewpoint

Loosey Goosey
Loosey Goosey wondering what's next

ChiTrib’s Manya Brachear tips her hand:

Just in time for parishioners to pass the plate this weekend and raise funds for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are expected Tuesday to tighten guidelines for giving financial support to groups that empower the poor.

Tighten?  From whose perspective?  Not from that of Catholics and others who see anomaly in RC funding of groups that flout RC teaching.

Brachear’s “tighten” remains in her lede in this story — about reverting to the community-organizing bias of Catholic Campaign for Human Development decision-makers — but it’s gone from the online head, where the home-delivery hard copy “tighten” becomes “adjust.”

Catholic bishops adjusting guidelines for funding programs in campaign against poverty

is indeed more like it.

So somebody’s minding the store at the Trib, trying to save the day, though you can hardly blame the hard-copy editors for going with the lede in its head, “Catholic bishops tighten rules on aid for poor.”

Point? Why does Brachear thinks it’s a tightening when it’s a loosening — relaxing a ban on giving money to abortion-referring organizations and the like?

One thought on “Loosey-goosey with viewpoint

  1. I tend tio think that when the catholic bishops tighten on the aid to the poor it is for a good motive because as somebody as already said, some people give aide for bad motives like funding abortion, euthanasia, contraception etc in order to reduce the number of people in the name of development. I think that development is meant to serve people and not to destroy them. Off the catholic teaching so much recognizes the sacredness of life and it is the duty of the bishops to see to it that nothing harms this sacred life.

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