Catholic Campaign for Human Development Continues to Fund Anti-Catholic Groups
The annual collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development is this weekend, and once again, the Lepanto Institute is encouraging Catholics to refrain from donating. Last year, we wrote about the Marxist core of the CCHD. For those who have not yet seen the EWTN docudrama, A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, you need to put away 90 minutes of your time this week and watch it. In order to understand the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and its problems, you have to watch this docudrama!
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Our only criticism of this video is that it didn’t go far enough into explaining the institutional rot that the CCHD was founded upon.
As the collection is coming up, people have been asking if CCHD has cleaned up its act, or if it has fixed its problems, as it has claimed. Without any equivocation or hesitation, we can say with certainty, “no it has not!” Since we’ve been very focused on our latest investigation into Catholic Relief Services, we haven’t had time to devote for a full-blown investigation into CCHD’s grantees for this past year. That said, we did take the time to look through the grants list to see if CCHD is still funding organizations that we have exposed in the past, and found that at least 23 previously profiled organizations continue to receive CCHD funding. In the interest of time, we will provide you with one new profile to illustrate just how incompetent and possibly complicit CCHD is with the promotion of abortion and homosexuality through the groups it continues to finance.
According to the CCHD’s 2015-2016 list of grantees, The National CCHD gave $70,000 to an organization called Somos un Pueblo Unido.
Back in 2012, Michael Hichborn personally met with Ralph McCloud and John Carr to discuss the problematic organizations he had discovered that CCHD was funding, and Somos un Pueblo Unido was one of them. Click here to view the older profile on Somos, which (among other things) exposes it for:
- actively promoting abortion and homosexuality through its own website and weekly radio program.
- Advertising for Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) in its December, 2008 newsletter
- Its August 31, 2011 radio show featuring a rep from Young Women United, a strongly pro-abortion organization. In the show, Somos praised the work of Young Women United, including its work on youth access to contraception and abortion.
In short, given its egregious violations of CCHD grant guidelines, there is no reason this organization should have continued to receive funding. And yet, this year it was awarded $70,000
Since the previous profile on Somos un Pueblo Unido is four years old, we took another look, and sure enough, it continues to violate CCHD guidelines. Somos un Pueblo is a partner of the homosexual advocacy organization, Equality New Mexico.
In 2014, Somos un Pueblo Unido played a key role in helping Equality New Mexico create the LGBTQ Immigrant Advocacy Initiative. Next to an image with the title”La Virgen Lesbiana,” clearly mocking the Blessed Virgin Mary, the stated goals of the PGBTQ Immigrant Advocacy Initiative are:
- increase statewide capacity for intersectional organizing,
- build and strengthen public education and outreach efforts that address the intersections of being both LGBTQ and undocumented, and
- develop a strong advocacy presence from within the LGBTQ rights movement to work in solidarity with the immigrant rights community.
In June of 2016, Somos un Pueblo’s executive director, Marcala Diaz interviewed the field director for Equality New Mexico, praiding their work, encouraging people to participate in their advocacy, and stating very clearly that Somos un Pueblo Unido had worked with them for several years in promoting homosexuality.
On June 25, Somos un Pueblo Unido participated in the Santa Fe Gay Pride Parade.
In this picture, Somos un Pueblo refers to Equality New Mexico and the New Mexico Gay Straight Alliance Network as “partners,” as it announces that it just finished marching in the gay pride parade. Note the Equality New Mexico banner to the right. All of the yellow shirts are Somos un Pueblo Unido organization t-shirts.
Equality New Mexico posted its own set of pictures, again indicating that it marched with Somos un Pueblo Unido in the Pride Parade.
And since Somos un Pueblo Unido made it very clear that it is a partner with Equality New Mexico, and considering its advocacy for abortion and contraception in the past (see the previous profile linked above), it should come as no surprise that Equality New Mexico equates LGBT activism with pro-abortion activism. On June 27, 2016 … just two days after it marched with Somos un Pueblo Unido, and they sang each other’s praises, Equality New Mexico posted this:
Conclusion
The CCHD’s grant guidelines are very clear about what activities grantees may participate in. Specifically, the guidelines say:
Applicant organizations must not participate in or promote activities that contradict the moral and social teachings of the Catholic Church and must in no way work against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ priorities to defend human life and dignity, strengthen family life and the institution of marriage, and foster diversity. For example, applicant organizations that support or promote same-sex marriage, discrimination, capital punishment, abortion, euthanasia, or punitive measures towards immigrants are not eligible for CCHD funding. (emphasis added)
Unfortunately, Somos un Pueblo Unido has been in routine violation of this guideline since at least 2011. Not only has it been in violation, but the executive director of the CCHD has known about Somos un Pueblo’s violation because Michael Hichborn personally handed him the evidence. CCHD clearly has no regard for the guidelines, as can be clearly seen by the most current evidence that CCHD could have easily found had it actually looked. As we have said before, either CCHD is incompetent, and therefore unworthy of Catholic funds, or it is complicit, and certainly unworthy of Catholic funds. Either way, we encourage you to slip the Alinsky Buck below into the CCHD envelope for this Sunday’s collection.
OTHER PREVIOUSLY PROFILED GRANTEES STILL RECEIVING CCHD FUNDING
- Ventura County Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice – $25,000
- United Workers’ Association – $50,000
- Cleghorn Neighborhood Center – $40,000
- Taxi Workers Alliance of Pennsylvania – $80,000
- The Ezekiel Project – $45,000
- Project Return – $50,000
- Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network – $30,000
- Pioneer Valley Project – $40,000
- Partnership for Community Action – $46,000
- Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition – $35,000
- Niagara Organizing Alliance for Hope – $50,000
- New Labor – $40,000
- Metropolitan Congregations United – $70,000
- Merced Organizing Project – $50,000
- Kennebec Valley Organization – $40,000
- Hmong American Farmers Association – $70,000
- Harriet Tubman Center – $45,000
- Granite State Organizing Project – $40,000
- Food AND Medicine – $42,000
- Faith in Community – $45,000
- Detroit Action Commonwealth – $30,000
- Centro de Trabadajadores Unidos en Lucha – $70,000
- Atlantans Building Leadership for Empowerment – $45,000
Cowards….the Bishops who allow this are cowards.
We can hope they’re only cowards. Most likely they are accomplices.
Agree! No money from our family!
Mere cowards do not, of their own free choice, aid and abet the perpetuation of grave moral evils. Those who do so are “fellow travelers” with the perpetrators of same.
I have been saying this for years. Got hundreds to not give to that rotten organization CCHD.
Speaking of CCHD, New Mexico, and Soros —
Since you are Lepanto Institute you probably are well aware of all the following but it’s some personal research I did online after reading an article in America magazine.
Former CCHD employee Dylan Corbett involved with voter registration with a group in El Paso which also promotes an issue – “municipal ID’s” — which is promoted by Soros group Border Network for Human Rights.
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http://www.americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/us-mexico-border-catholics-get-out-vote
“The registration drive at St. Mark’s was held in collaboration with the Hope Border Institute, an El Paso-based organization that promotes Catholic social teaching in cities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Over the course of seven weeks beginning in August, the group hosted a series of workshops entitled “The Border Votes” about issues they say Catholics should consider in the voting booth, including global migration, the environment, an “economy that kills” and life issues.
“Hispanic-Americans vote at lower rates than other Americans, and El Paso County in particular, one of Texas’ bluest, has historically ranked near the bottom in terms of Texas voting. So earlier this fall, St. Mark’s hosted a training session with city officials about how to conduct voter registration drives. Representatives from six other local parishes attended.
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“At St. Mark’s, registration drives were held on the first two weekends in October, during which about 750 people registered to vote. Those attending the trainings promised to register more people on their own.
“These folks are now going to take people, their neighbors and friends, to early voting,” Msgr. Banuelas said. “During Election Day next Tuesday, parishioners are going to take other people to go vote. It’s a good start for us.”
see for Banuelas – http://www.riograndecatholic.org/RGC/?p=1923
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Info re: the Hope Border Institute —
http://www.hopeborder.org/our-team –
“Dylan Corbett is the founding director of the Hope Border Institute. Dylan formerly worked as a staffer to the bishops of the United States at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development as well as with the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD),”
also
From Sept. 2015 – 26 minute New Mexico National Public Radio interview Fronteras A Changing America re: the Hope Border Institute — http://krwg.org/post/hope-border-institute-dylan-corbett
Video says Hope Border Institute was Inspired by Pope Francis. They work with secular groups. In the video is a new term to me: “semi-documented” about time 14:11 – 14:12; Also the Institute promotes “municipal ID’s ” for undocumented — around time 16:10
They work with Border Network for Human Rights works on municipal .ID’s — This is a Soros group — https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/us-programs/grantees/border-network-human-rights
See http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5181 for more on Open Society Foundation.
Soros associated group registers Catholics to vote in El Paso (bear with me here) —
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/us-mexico-border-catholics-get-out-vote
“The registration drive at St. Mark’s was held in collaboration with the Hope Border Institute, an El Paso-based organization that promotes Catholic social teaching in cities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Over the course of seven weeks beginning in August, the group hosted a series of workshops entitled “The Border Votes” about issues they say Catholics should consider in the voting booth, including global migration, the environment, an “economy that kills” and life issues.
“Hispanic-Americans vote at lower rates than other Americans, and El Paso County in particular, one of Texas’ bluest, has historically ranked near the bottom in terms of Texas voting. So earlier this fall, St. Mark’s hosted a training session with city officials about how to conduct voter registration drives. Representatives from six other local parishes attended.
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“At St. Mark’s, registration drives were held on the first two weekends in October, during which about 750 people registered to vote. Those attending the trainings promised to register more people on their own.
“These folks are now going to take people, their neighbors and friends, to early voting,” Msgr. Banuelas said. “During Election Day next Tuesday, parishioners are going to take other people to go vote. It’s a good start for us.”
see for Banuelas – http://www.riograndecatholic.org/RGC/?p=1923
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Info re: the Hope Border Institute —
http://www.hopeborder.org/our-team –
“Dylan Corbett is the founding director of the Hope Border Institute. Dylan formerly worked as a staffer to the bishops of the United States at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development as well as with the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD),”
also
From Sept. 2015 – 26 minute National Public Radio interview Fronteras A Changing America re: the Hope Border Institute — http://krwg.org/post/hope-border-institute-dylan-corbett
Video says Hope Border Institute was Inspired by Pope Francis. They work with secular groups. In the video is a new term to me: “semi-documented” about time 14:11 – 14:12; Also the Institute promotes “municipal ID’s ” for undocumented — around time 16:10
They work with Border Network for Human Rights works on municipal .ID’s — This is a Soros group — https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/us-programs/grantees/border-network-human-rights
See http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5181 for more on Open Society Foundation.
Sorry about the repetition of the information. I obviously wasn’t aware I did that when I submitted the comment. I thought I proofread. Thanks.
Seems like you haven’t got much dirt there. Catholic bishops support voter registration and voting. The local bishop where Border Network for Human Rights is and where Hope is doing their work also supports municipal IDs: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0ahUKEwivv5bz9LLQAhXMULwKHSXKCDEQFgg2MAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.epcounty.com%2Fagenda%2FAttachmentViewer.ashx%3FAttachmentID%3D28885%26ItemID%3D22724&usg=AFQjCNHq3NaVaqUdijVkqtSdGrNYcpZKIg&sig2=Pqy6zdMjU8-QNsO1LnRFdA.
I’m not sure I understand your point. What does voter registration have to do with the pro-abortion and pro-homosexual efforts of Somos un Pueblo Unido?
If you were replying to me I would answer with the quote from the above article:
“develop a strong advocacy presence from within the LGBTQ rights movement to work in solidarity with the immigrant rights community.”
Immigrant rights has everything to do with getting citizenship — and/or political power (ex. voting, influencing elections) even if these people never become citizens. Also where there’s smoke, there’s fire.– My comment cites some of the same players as the article — CCHD, New Mexico, “immigrants.”
In response to Frank: If Catholic organizations being affiliated with Soros programs isn’t enough “dirt,” nothing will bother you. If the local bishop you refer to is Seitz (El Paso), he was a former pastor of mine. Just because he endorses something doesn’t mean I buy it, unfortunately.
Catholic in Texas,
Nope … your point was very clear. I was wondering about Frank’s comment.
God bless!
Michael
thank you for your work. THIS IS TYPICALLY DISGUSTING of our LIBERAL DEMOCRAT BISHOPS !! strayed from Pope Paul VI on birth control and in free fall ever since…. the floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of just these kind. REPENT. WE THE PEOPLE demand you fat cats LINE ITEM YOUR BUDGET….this is not your money….IT IS OUR MONEY you are giving for immoral purposes…WE WILL SHUT YOU DOWN by boycotting donations…..DO YOU HEAR? got ears?
you don’t have any LINKS so that your readers can post this article to their social network !! what are you doing????? Link the article to everywhere !!! get with it….
Wow! Kudos to Lepanto Institute for the work involved in researching down to the nuts and bolts here. Aside from the vote, I would argue the second most powerful tool we have as citizens is to boycott- to hit organizations and businesses in the pocketbook. I don’t believe Catholics and Protestant Christians do this enough. Of course, it begins with being informed- who to boycott and why. You have done yeoman’s work with this major first step. Thank you!
Were all 23 previously profiled organizations in violation of the guidelines? If they were, back then, they should not be on the current list to receive funds. Accountability!!!! Surely, the Bishops need to know of all of this. If they have been informed & continue to support these groups , something must be done to stop this.
Why is this happening?? Do they give money to any group? Who over sees the money?
If true, church has no business promoting or helping programs that go directly against Scripture teaching
USCCB has disgraced it’s self! How they can come as a body unopposed in their meetings and come up with this left wing, progressive thinking? It boggles the mind of any right thinking. Catholic. They have much too answer for! God is insulted by their false piety. Pray hard for our “holy priests”. God will dispose of these traitors.
Nowadays, many “social justice” organizations– even those that, at first glance, do not appear to be strongly focused on “identity” and “sexual freedom”– will probably embrace abortion, sexual acting out, and euthanasia. Often, these groups believe that “personal freedom” means the “righr” to act like a petulant little god, regardless of any negative consequences to others.
So Catholics must always be careful who we donate to.
Is there a new link for the movie, A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? I bought 2 DVDs to share with others but it is certainly easier to forward a link.
It seems that the version that was posted online was removed due to copyright violation.