(While this full article is about the Democrat and Clinton media
collusion scheme, it reveals another partner in crime – Christian, particularly
Catholic, charities – and their cooperation to bring down our American culture
and traditions. I have excerpted that portion here – the rest, which is ‘old
news’, you can read from the link provided below. - CL)
….The dinner itself reflects how even the Catholic Archdiocese,
which sponsors this dinner for the benefit of Catholic Charities, has been
coopted by the left and vast sums of federal money. It looks as if it has
lost its way. Catholic
Charities receives hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal
treasury as a refugee resettlement contractor. They accept thousands of unvetted
Syrian Moslems and place them in communities already struggling to provide
basic services, get them signed up for welfare benefits for which taxpayers
then have to foot the bill and then lobby Congress for more funds to repeat
this operation.
Catholic Charities/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: These
nominally Catholic organizations are the largest VOLAGs [voluntary
organizations], with hundreds of offices spread throughout the country. They
are prominent members of the open borders/amnesty movement. The Catholic
Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is “the domestic anti-poverty program of
the U.S. Catholic Bishops” and a grant-making vehicle of the USCCB. It was
founded in Chicago in 1969 with the help of radical organizer Saul Alinsky, specifically
to fund Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation. CCHD has been a radical leftist
funding vehicle ever since, giving millions to ACORN, the radical training
school Midwest Academy, and others. The Industrial Areas Foundation, where a
young Barack Obama was trained in “community organizing” with financial support
from the Chicago Archdiocese, receives the largest percentage of CCHD grants of
any CCHD grantee.
President Obama had this to say about CCHD:
I got my start as a community organizer working with mostly
Catholic parishes on the Southside of Chicago that were struggling because the
steel plants had closed. The Campaign for Human Development helped fund the
project and so, very early on, my career was intertwined with the belief in
social justice that is so strong in the Church.
USCCB founded the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., a $7
million subsidiary which assists illegal aliens based on “the Gospel value of
welcoming the stranger.” It aggressively promotes amnesty, believing that “all
goods of the earth belong to all people. When persons cannot find employment in
their country of origin to support themselves and their families, they have a
right to find work elsewhere in order to survive. Sovereign nations should
provide ways to accommodate this right.” USCCB has 270 field offices in 47
states. Board members include Donald D. Taylor, president of the extreme-left
union UNITE HERE!
Catholics are not alone in this three-card Monte game -- there are
nine other such nominally faith-based organization receiving vast sums to
bring refugees here, pushing for amnesty and more money for their operations
which are disrupting American communities and transforming them.
Most if not all started out as private charitable institutions
providing financial and other aid out of their own funds for this work.
Iowahawk describes the transformation of so many of our once fine institutions
as these:
“Take a respected institution.
Kill it.
Gut it.
Wear its carcass as a skin suit.
And demand respect.”
I don’t recall Catholic Charities or any of the voluntary
resettlement contractors lobbying on the hill for better vetting of refugees or
for a change in the UN processing of them abroad to include truly persecuted
groups like Christian refugees. (They may have; I just haven’t seen it.) It’s a
scandal -- your money funds these nominally
Christian and Jewish groups to bring in ever more inassimilable, low
educated, unskilled, and sometimes very ill and dangerous hordes to transform
us from a Christian-Judeo nation which believes in religious tolerance into one
in which a growing minority of immigrants which a supremacist fantasy
encourages demands for special privileges and the right to live off our
bounty as they undermine what has created it.
The more refugee cases a volag is assigned, the more money the
federal government hands over to the private agency. In some ways, the model
resembles those charities that spend inordinately on fund raising and
administration instead of on actually helping needy people.
Clearly, refugee resettlement policy and programs, from top to
bottom, are overdue for congressional scrutiny and reform. Those organizations,
including religious ones, receiving federal monies deserve close assessment. It
is morally incumbent on religious refugee bureaus to examine their own hearts.
As Christ said, it is impossible to serve both God and money (Luke 16:13).
Their efforts would be a lot more honest and effective and a lot less harmful
to their fellow countrymen and communities if they returned to reliance on
private funding alone.
Hundreds of Catholic institutions are involved, including
Catholic Charities of NY. The $177.2 million in federal grants to Catholic
charities in 2015 are from a single charity
organization. -- the Catholic Charities of Chicago. So it’s fair to
assume that the NY branch (for whom the Al Smith dinner is the beneficiary)
itself garnered at least that much that year.
But the Al Smith dinner reflects more than its being a cover for
leftist money-grubbing at our expense -- it reveals a shocking disregard for
Catholic sensibilities to curry favor with New York’s leftist elites and
Hillary.
Recent history reveals the shift. Writing in the NC Register,
Thomas
Mcardle questions whether this dinner for the glitterati has passed its
expiration date.
The overall message the Al Smith Dinner now sends to Americans,
Catholic and non-Catholic alike, is that Catholic teachings on human life and
marriage can’t be allowed to muss relations between the Church and an
increasingly anti-Catholic state. But in both 1996 and 2004, the
abortion-friendly position of first Bill Clinton and then Catholic Democrat
nominee John Kerry led to both parties’ candidates not being invited by the
Archdiocese of New York.
The decision to invite Hillary is even more inexplicable when the
Archbishop had the same week demanded
an apology from Hillary for the anti-Catholic material within her campaign
disclosed by Wikileaks, and hasn’t received one.
Emails released last week by WikiLeaks showed Clinton Campaign
Chairman John Podesta and Director of Communications Jennifer Palmieri, both
Catholics, in conversations with activists from two left-wing organizations. In
the emails, Catholics were debased, with their beliefs being called “severely
backwards.” Conservative Catholics also were accused of “an amazing
bastardization of the faith,” and Rupert Murdoch was mocked for baptizing his
children as Catholics in the River Jordan.
The U.S. Church’s bishops were slammed in the emails as well,
referred to as “a middle ages dictatorship.”
Palmieri said in one of the emails she thought conservatives
that had come to Catholicism did so because “they think it is the most socially
acceptable politically conservative religion,” and that “their rich friends
wouldn't understand if they became evangelicals.”
Podesta admitted to helping launch a “progressive” infiltration
of the Church in another email, and he took an active role in attempting to
incite a liberal Catholic revolt against the U.S. bishops.
“We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to
organize for a moment like this,” Podesta wrote. “But I think it lacks the
leadership to do so now. Likewise Catholics United. Like most Spring movements,
I think this one will have to be bottom up.”
The “Catholic Spring” Podesta referred to had been broached in
the email by Center for Progress president Sandy Newman, who had pondered how
one would "plant the seeds of the revolution," or “who would plant
them.”
