I hope the Bishop is correct. I haven't given to the CCHD collection in my parish for a few years.
Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay has announced the end of a moratorium on local collections for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development because of policy changes aimed at preventing grants to groups whose actions contradict Catholic teaching.
“I am confident that we have the necessary checks in place that will help us to be better informed and assist us in discerning grant requests properly,” Bishop Ricken said in his seven-page Feb. 16 pastoral statement.
The bishop noted “significant disagreement” about some of the campaign's grants. Though the campaign has done “much good,” a few organizations that received its funds acted in conflict with Catholic teaching or had direct connections to coalitions which acted in contradiction to Catholic principles of social justice.
There was also concern about the “appearance of partisan political positions” some of these organizations had taken and whether this reflected poorly upon the adherence of a parish or diocese to the U.S. bishops’ guidelines for political involvement.
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I hope this is true! Our Bishop (Jaime Soto) was recently put in charge of the CCHD, and he's always been passionately pro-life and has spoken out in defense of marriage... so we've been hopeful... but still nervous about whether he'll really be able to turn the CCHD around.
I hope so too!
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