On April 26 – less than a month ago – the Pillar reported that the executive director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Ralph McCloud, had resigned from the CCHD earlier that month. The Pillar revealed that under McCloud’s leadership, the CCHD maintained a spending deficit of $8-$10 million annually, depleting the nearly $60 million in assets it had accumulated by 2012.The Lepanto Institute has been exposing the CCHD’s funding of organizations promoting abortion, … [Read more...]
Catholic-Funded Organization Prayed to Demons
Planting Justice (October 2025 Update) Back in 2023, the Lepanto Institute released a report covering how the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) was funding Planting Justice, an organization that prayed to demons, via the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). Since the time of that initial report, it has come to our attention that the CCHD continued to fund Planting Justice for an additional year beyond what we originally covered, donating $25,000 during the 2022-23 … [Read more...]
Catholic Campaign for Human Development Closes all Communication, Refuses to Answer Questions
NOTE: Action item at the end of the article!!!Over the weekend, the Lepanto Institute received a letter from Bishop Timothy Senior, current chairman of the subcommittee for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), slamming the door on any discussion regarding serious concerns related to CCHD grantees while refusing to publish the most recent grants list. Despite the CCHD's vigorous commitment to "operate at the highest levels of ... transparency," this letter from the CCHD's … [Read more...]
Report on Grantees of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development for FY 2020-2021
IntroductionThe following report on organizations receiving funding from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 provides a list of clickable reports. (Click here for the full chart of CCHD grantee Reports) Each of the organizations profiled received a grant from the CCHD, according to the latest reported list from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Next to the named organization is the amount it received from the CCHD for that year, … [Read more...]
CCHD 2020-2021 Grants Report
CCHD 2020-2021 Grants ReportWhat follows is a listing of all 66 grantees found to be in violation of CCHD guidelines and Catholic moral teaching. Click the name of the organization to read the full report. You can also sort each column alphabetically, either by name of the organization, by diocese, or by violation type.NOTE REGARDING DIOCESES NOT LISTED HERE: Most dioceses that take the CCHD collection only retain 25% of the collection money for local use. The other 75% is sent to … [Read more...]
