The Catholic Campaign for Human Development can’t break clean from its dubious past.

 

Alinskyite from the Start

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development can’t break clean from its dubious past.

May 8, 2011 Anne HendershottPrint

Describing the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) as “misbegotten in concept and corrupt in practice,” Father Richard John Neuhaus, the late editor of First Things, wrote in 2008 that “the CCHD has nothing to do with Catholicism, except that Catholics are asked to pay for it.” One can only imagine what Father Neuhaus might have said about the current allegations of funding impropriety and duplicity by personnel employed at the highest levels of the CCHD itself. 

2008 brought reports that the CCHD had provided more than $7.3 million in parishioner donations to the corrupt community organization ACORN, and this year brought new problems. The most recent CCHD controversy involves John Carr, the executive director of the USCCB’s Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development— the office that oversees the CCHD. While working at the USCCB, Mr. Carr concurrently chaired the board of the Center for Community Change (CCC), an organization that has received $150,000 from the CCHD despite supporting abortion.

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