For the last 15 years, I have personally investigated and exposed the activities of hundreds of organizations receiving funds from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). During that time, bishops and officers of the CCHD have gone to great lengths to deny that there are any problems with CCHD grantees while continuing to ask for funds. In April, Ralph McCloud – the former CCHD director – suddenly departed his post without any explanation. Furthermore, it has been discovered that … [Read more...]
Prominent Catholics to US Bishops: Shut Down Controversial Campaign
Prominent Catholics from across the United States have signed an open-letter addressed to the bishops of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), asking them to permanently close down the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). For over 50 years, the CCHD has been the center of an ongoing controversy as organizations promoting abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and outright Marxist ideologies have received CCHD grants. Since 2009, scrutiny over CCHD-funded … [Read more...]
CCHD Granted $65,000 to Org Supporting Witchcraft, Abortion, Transgenderism
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 Grantee Collects Pornographic LGBTQ Books for Minors at Youth Center
Bishop Chairman of CCHD gives blanket defense of CCHD grants and grant review processCongregations United to Serve Humanity (UPDATE 2025) The following report was originally published on 2023. We are including this updated report only because CUSH was listed on the 2022-2023 CCHD grants list as having received $45,000. It is important to mention here that the 2022-2023 CCHD grant provided to CUSH came prior to our report. Subsequent to the publication of our 2023 report, Abp. Listecki … [Read more...]
