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<div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="4"><font size="4">Please see the below email we received from our pastor in Norcross, Fr. David Dye, regarding the proposed second collection that was to be taken up during all masses this weekend to benefit the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Apparently this money is being spent in ways that faithful Catholics would very much disagree with. This is an archdiocesan wide collection, if not nationwide, so please pass it on to others. Beneath Fr. Dye's words is more information a friend sent me on an appeal that was sent to the US Catholic Conference of Bishops.<br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">CCHD made grants to ACORN, the community development organization that has been much in the news lately, in the amount of slightly more than 1.1 million dollars. In June of this year, it was discovered that one of the principle leaders of this organization embezzled over a million dollars. CCHD stopped all further grants at that time.</span></font></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Because of its many associations with groups that are blatantly in opposition to Catholic moral teachings, gifts to ACORN from funds collected from Catholics in the pew are highly questionable. This, coupled with the scandal of embezzlement, makes me think it is inappropriate to ask for gifts at Masses at this time.</span></font></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">There are many other allegations of grants being made to other groups that are blatantly opposed to Catholic moral teachings. Some of these organizations are alleged to be controlled by individuals who support the radically dissident group <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Call to Action</span></i>, a group outside the Church which seeks to organize laity against the church.</span></font></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">There has been for some years an ongoing debate and criticism about CCDH making grants in opposition to Church teachings. It seems to me to be too uncertain to pass the collection baskets for CCHD at this time.</span></font></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="black" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">BALTIMORE</span></font><font color="black" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">, MARYLAND</span></font><font color="black" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Helvetica;"> - A lay, pro-life Catholic organization has called on the U.S. Catholic Bishops to disband the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). "For years, Catholics have supported -- unwittingly -- left-wing pro-abortion causes when they donate to the annual CCHD collection," said Kathleen Sullivan, Chairman of Laity for Life, Inc. "It is outrageous that millions of hard-earned Catholic dollars have been funneled from CCHD into ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and other radical causes."</span></font></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">Laity for Life, Inc. has submitted a resolution to Bishop Roger P. Morin, Chairman of the CCHD Subcommittee of the Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), to dissolve the Catholic Campaign for Human Development at the Bishops' meeting this week in Baltimore. The resolution has also been submitted to other key bishops who are attending the conference.</span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">"ACORN received $1,037,000 in 37 grants in 2007 from CCHD, and $7.3 million over the past 10 years," explained Kathleen Sullivan, Chairman of the Board of Laity for Life based in Naples, Florida. "Ralph McCloud, the Executive Director of CCHD, has admitted that some funds donated by the Catholic campaign went into voter registration drives in "swing states" during this 2008 election. Many of these are currently being investigated by the FBI. This is an outrage."</span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Helvetica;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The link between ACORN and the Obama campaign has been widely reported in the media. An October 26, 2008, article in<span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-style: italic;">The National Catholic Register</span></i>, "ACORN's Collection Plate Money" describes how the Catholic Campaign for Human Development<span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-style: italic;">"aggressively funded ACORN as it undertook new voter registrations - mostly in states that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama needs to win</span></i>." See<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a rel="nofollow"
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">"The CCHD has 'suspended' but not cancelled the grants to ACORN in light of the $1 million dollars embezzled by ACORN's founder, Wade Rathke. But this is not good enough. It has long been known that funds donated in this annual national collection in Catholic parish churches on the Sunday before Thanksgiving have gone to projects and activities not in concert with the teachings of the Catholic Church, " Mrs. Sullivan said. "It's high time that CCHD bit the dust."</span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">Laity for Life's proposed resolution states that "