Father Jose Antonio Bermudez, Saint Mary's Parish in Orange and CCHD

In a parish bulletin from Saint Mary's Parish in Orange, Massachusetts back in November of 2013, which may be found here, we read:

"Collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human

Development (CCHD) needs your help. CCHD was founded to end the cycle of poverty throughout America by funding organizations that help individuals help themselves. With a tradition of improving education, housing, and community economic development,
CCHD continues to make a positive impact in communities nationwide."

The fact that this promotion of CCHD appeared in the Saint Mary's Parish bulletin with the blessing of the former "pastor," Father Jose Antonio Bermudez, only serves to highlight the fact that the priest is duplicitous and given over to the demonic.

We read here (from Reform CCHD Now):

"Since 2009, we have been working to shine the light on the problem of Catholic funds going to organizations that promote abortion, birth control, homosexuality and even Marxism."

Wikipedia notes:

"CCHD has at times been subject at times to criticism, with allegations that some CCHD-funded organizations were promoting abortion, contraception and radical politics, and that the CCHD was a force of internal corruption within the USCCB.."

When I informed Father Jose Antonio Bermudez about its promotion of dissenting groups and Marxism, he responded (in November of 2011):

I still have the email correspondence from this priest-liar, who maintained a facade of holiness while promoting CCHD.  Even after admitting there was reason for concern and promising that "the material has been removed from the Church building," he continued to promote CCHD after I left the parish in 2011.

Not long ago, I returned to the parish and was ostracized by Father Bermudez and his inner circle.  Now I can better understand why.

The Catechism, speaking of lying, has this to say:

2482 "A lie consists in speaking a falsehood with the intention of deceiving." The Lord denounces lying as the work of the devil: "You are of your father the devil, . . . there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies."

2483 Lying is the most direct offense against the truth. To lie is to speak or act against the truth in order to lead someone into error. By injuring man's relation to truth and to his neighbor, a lie offends against the fundamental relation of man and of his word to the Lord.

2484 The gravity of a lie is measured against the nature of the truth it deforms, the circumstances, the intentions of the one who lies, and the harm suffered by its victims. If a lie in itself only constitutes a venial sin, it becomes mortal when it does grave injury to the virtues of justice and charity.

2485 By its very nature, lying is to be condemned. It is a profanation of speech, whereas the purpose of speech is to communicate known truth to others. The deliberate intention of leading a neighbor into error by saying things contrary to the truth constitutes a failure in justice and charity. The culpability is greater when the intention of deceiving entails the risk of deadly consequences for those who are led astray.

2486 Since it violates the virtue of truthfulness, a lie does real violence to another. It affects his ability to know, which is a condition of every judgment and decision. It contains the seed of discord and all consequent evils. Lying is destructive of society; it undermines trust among men and tears apart the fabric of social relationships

I'm not surprised that Father Bermudez, who has given himself over to lying while promoting the CCHD, would treat me with contempt.  Every liar hates to be exposed.

Pray for this deeply troubled priest and a parish which has been, under his failed leadership, failing miserably.

Related reading: Obama thanked CCHD for helping him become president.  See here.

Cleghorn Neighborhood Center/United Neighbors of Fitchburg: Partners in Sin

The Cleghorn Neighborhood Center/United Neighbors of Fitchburg, See here, has received CCHD monies which have been funneled toward the promotion of abortion, contraception and same-sex "marriage."

The United Neighbors of Fitchburg lists the following individuals, groups and organizations as its supporters.  Some, like Mayor Lisa Wong, are hardly a surprise.  But take note how Deacon Jim Couture and his wife, and Saint Joseph's Parish, as a body, are listed as supporters:

Community Partners and Supporters
Foundations, Corporations and Businesses

Adult Day Health Center
Allison's Attik
Ameilia Peabody Foundation
Anderson, Bagley and Mayo
B Beautiful Salon
Babineau Insurance
Ben And Jerry’s Foundation
Burgess Urban Fund-Episcopal City Mission
Catholic Campaign For Human Development
Chaibo
Community Foundation Of North Central Massachusetts
Cosimi Corp.
Cumberland Farms
DeBonis and Davin Florist
Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation
Dr. David Baron, Optometrist
Emily MacRae Enterprises
Endless Summer Tanning
Enterprise Bank
Fallon Community Health Plan
Fidelity Bank
Fidelity Foundation
George R Wallace, Jr. Foundation
Gold Bowl
Greater Worcester Community Foundation
Hampton Fish Co.
Hannaford’s Supermarket
Haymarket People’s Fund
Health Foundation Of North Central Massachusetts
Hoche-Scofield Foundation
IC Credit Union
Inspiration's Hair and Nails
JC Independent Cleaners
Jive Turkey
JN Phillips Auto Glass
KMBA Realty Trust
Martinez Road Construction
Morales Transportation
Moran Square Diner
Napoli Group Inc.
Nike
N. Middlesex Savings Bank
Nypro Inc.
Pak Mail
Project Bread
Rick Ruberti Auto Sales
Rollstone Bank and Trust
Rollstone Charitable Foundation
Romano Overhead Doors
Ruel Electric
Sterilite Corporation
The Boulder
The Giving Common—The Boston Foundation
Therrien & Sons Oil
United Way of NCM
UNITIL
Verizon Foundation
Worker’s Credit Union

Individuals
Adrian Ford
Adriannne Clark
Aimee Marceau
Alan and Mary Sandburg
Alejandra Di Gaeta
Alejandra Fernandez
Alejandra Lopez
Allison McLaughlin
Ana Perez
Andre Ravenalle
Andrew Goodwin
Andy and Elizabeth Van Hazinga
Anita and Joseph Carbone
Ann Fitch
Anna Phillips
Anonymous
Bethania Alverez
Brian and Pamela Frye
Bruce and Lynn Man
Carlos Piedra
Carmen Rosado
Charles Piermarini
Chris and Megan Picone
Cindy and Alexis Morales
Dan Mylott
Daniel Alverez
David Streb and Marsha Ladd
David and Mary Bilotta
David and Susan Babineau
Deacon Jim and Ruth Couture
Deborah and Robert Hubbard
Dolores and David Thibault-Munoz
Charlotte and William Chase
Christina and Thomas McCormack
Cynthia Soule
Edward and Susan Cronin
Eleanor and Assad Chamas
Elizabeth Carroll
Francine Evelyn
Gabriel Tome
Jean Belliveau
Joan David
Joana Dos Santos
Jeffrey and Karen Bean
Jeff Warmouth
John Flores
John and Annette Szivos
Jose E. Lopez
Jose Serpa
Josh and Heather Bilotta
Josiah Richards
Joyce Ryan
Julie Primeau
Julio Umpierrez
Joseph and Lil Zanghi
Karen Carzone
Kathy and Mark Dufour
Katherine McDermott
Kayla Bridges
Kevin St. Jean
Kristin Sweeney
Larry Cassasa
Laurie Bilotta
Lisa Wong
Luis Rojas
Lucille Phillip Gaudette
Macy Woodard
Mae Beth and Reginald Skidmore
Manuel Morocho
Marc Babineau
Marc S. Dohan and Marion Mcgill
Marcus DiNatale
Mario and Veronica Guay
Mark Maxfield
Mary Ellen Chartrand
Mary Lou Montalvo and Melvin Figueroa
Melissa Morales
Merle Adelman
Michael and Jane Cancellieri
Michael Gantt
Michele Adamu
Najid Figueroa
Nelson Saldivia
Nilso Perez
Norm and Annette LeBlanc
Norma Tanguay Frye and Robert Frye
Norman Boisvert
Pastor Thomas Hughes
Patricia Ferreira
Penelope Dillon
Peter Bovenzi
Peter Cormier
Peter Rome
Pius and Linda Kirrane
Ray Lafond
Ray and Mary Leger
Razz Beley
Rene Reed
Reinaldo Lopez
Robert and Lise Bourque
Roger and Charlene Boisvert
Romina Cabrera
Ron and Jeannine Maxfield
Ronald Ansin
Rosa Bravo
Ryan Mcnutt
Samantha Boyle
Sharyn Rice
Sheila and Mark Boudreau
Stephanie Page
Stephen and Amanda Bastien
Steven and Susan Babineau
Tillie Ryan
Thea Durling
Thomas Arthur Babineau
Thomas Bagley, III
Todd and Laura Goodwin
Tom And Peggy Wolff
Tung T Nguyen and Yennga Thi Vo
William Goodwin and Priscilla Rush

Government
Boston Public Health Commission
Byrne Grant
Collaborative Funding Committee
Community Health Network Area #9
City Of Fitchburg -CDBG Program, Charles E. Shannon Grant
FEMA Emergency Funds
Fitchburg Local Cultural Council
Fitchburg Police Department
Fitchburg Public Schools

Organizations
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
AHEC
Applewild School
Committee to Elect Steve DiNatale
Corner Stone Performing Arts Center
Daughters of Isabella
Elm Street Community Church
First Parish Church of Stow and Acton
Fitchburg Art Museum
Fitchburg Community Connections Coalition
Fitchburg Fire Community Betterment Fund
Fitchburg Firefighters Union Fund
Fitchburg Police Union Fund
Fitchburg Public Schools
Fitchburg State University
Fitchburg State University Foundation
Growing Places Garden Project
Health Alliance Hospital
Healthcare For All
Health Resources In Action
Heywood Hospital
Hope Inc.
House of Grace and Restoration
LUK, Inc.
Mario Quiroz Photography
Mass In Motion
MIRA Coalition
Montachusett Area Rotary Club
Montachusett Opportunity Council
Montachusett Regional Planning Commission
Mount Wachusett Community College
Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation
New Hope Community Church
North Central Essential Charter School
North Central MA CRA Coalition
North Central MA Faith Based Coalition
Project Bread
Public Policy Institute
Restoration of Hope, Inc.
St. Joseph's Church
Spanish American Center, Inc.
Spanish Church of God
The Arc of Opportunity
The Massachusetts Elk Association, Inc.
The Minority Coalition of North Central Massachusetts
Twin Cities CDC
United Way Of North Central Massachusetts
Worcester County Sheriff’s Community Fund
World Integrated Nations—FSU

In a letter to Mr. Paul Rondeau several years ago, the Executive Director of American Life League, Dr. William Marshner, a moral theologian who teaches at Christendom College, explained why Catholics should refrain from donating monies to the "Catholic" Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).  He wrote, "..the funding of an organization is formal cooperation in what it regularly does.  But in Catholic moral theology, it is never licit to cooperate formally in an immoral project."

CCHD, the "Catholic" Campaign for Human Development, is  an organization which was inspired by radical agitator Saul Alinsky, a Marxist who dedicated his Rules for Radicals to Lucifer, whom he called "the first radical." It is an umbrella organization and/or a front for various groups which dissent from the Church's authentic teaching. Especially in the area of sexual morality.

Boycott CCHD, the Cleghorn Neighborhood Center/United Neighbors of Fitchburg and stop donating to Saint Joseph's Parish - partners in evil.

Saint Joseph's Parish in Cleghorn and the Cleghorn Neighborhood Center: Partners in evil

In the past I have warned about demonic activity and doctrinal dissent at Saint Joseph's Parish in Cleghorn; things ranging from a priest viewing child pornography to a parish secretary who is photographed in a state of undress and sporting devil's horns to a Deacon who promotes the writings of an admitted sexual predator to a priest who would omit the Creed.

This same parish has been intimately connected with the Cleghorn Neighborhood Center in Fitchburg.  See here.

The problem? As the Lepanto Institute reports:

For Fiscal Year 2014-2015, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development provided a $35,000 grant to the United Neighbors of Fitchburg, formerly known as the Cleghorn Neighborhood Center (CNC).  In 2012, Reform CCHD Now reported serious problems with CNC, including the fact that CNC was listed as a “community partner” with the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.

Summary of Problems

CNC is listed as a “community partner” with Planned Parenthood.

CNC’s Youth Development Supervisor created a presentation on teen pregnancy which promotes Planned Parenthood.

CNC co-sponsored TeenAIDS events, which promote condom use.

Is a member of a coalition that supports same-sex marriage.

Small wonder that the parish didn't want me around and refused to let me participate in parish ministry.  My reputation for "telling it like it is" would have been disastrous for them.

The parish has become a haunt of demons.  This is not the same parish which my father's cousin, Father Louis Gould, served as Pastor.  Now infidelity has spread like a cancer.

The culture of evil and deceit continues.

Paul
cleghornboy@juno.com

Stephen Kent, in an essay entitled “A need for pro-active ethics,” writes, “Ethics are based on values. Values arise from foundational beliefs, the primary ones being the dignity of the human person and the sanctity of life as God’s creation. What advances this ideal is good, what hinders it is wrong.”


Which is why it is most unfortunate that the Worcester Diocese [Massachusetts] continues to raise monies for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, an umbrella organization which funnels monies to various groups promoting abortion, contraception and even sodomy and same-sex “marriage.” Any diocese which claims to be committed toward defending the sanctity of human life while raising monies for CCHD is not being honest.

Writing for The Recorder, Father Robert Markovitch of the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit in South Deerfield, Massachusetts notes that liberalism is a religion with two sacraments: sex and death. And the over-arching belief system of this religion is evolution. Fr. Writes, “This belief system has consequences. They are: that the most intimate moment of a man and a woman becomes, as a norm, a place for two people to use each other as things; that deep in a woman is a womb, a chamber where death may be dealt; that the best sport for most is sex; that the heart is wasted sentiment worthy of no attention; where the full openness to the sex act closes off human friendships; that all pain can be avoided by substances and higher volume stimulation; and last, but not least, when the existence sport sacrament is exhausted, the answer is gift of a hundred pills from a government-imposed affordable ‘health care’ plan - the final sacrament and solution.”

And there are many within the Church who secretly yearn for such a religion. This should not really surprise us. One of the most important signs of the latter days is the great number of Catholics who will abandon the true faith. Numerous seers have indicated that along with the general indifference toward religion which will prevail just prior to the arrival of Antichrist, there will be a complete degeneration of morals, a degeneration which will resemble that of the pagans before the dawn of Christianity. Reverend Gerald Culleton explains that, “After the birth of Antichrist...the false doctrines were to multiply and spread to such an extent that even Catholics would doubt many of the articles of faith, resulting in their perversion, this to apply not only to the laity but even to many priests and some of the hierarchy. The zeal of these latter will be greatly affected by this lack of faith. There will be dissentions among the clergy. Many will be proud, selfish, unjust, covetous, and even forgetful of vows made at ordination regarding chastity. Many will even offer Mass and confer the sacraments sacrilegiously. When the zeal of the clergy fails they will see the faithful leaving the churches and turning to the world....Because of these defections Catholics will be severely punished, for only by chastisements can God bring back to the minds of His people a realization of their dependence upon Him. As a consequence, widespread persecution of priests and people will come upon the Church in order that faith and love of God may be revived, for as surely as night follows day, so will civilization crumble and the world become steeped in the darkness of ignorance, hatred, misery and vice when God, who is the Light of the World, will no longer rule in the hearts of His people.”

Fr. Culleton notes that, “..many people will seem to honor God but this will be chiefly lip service and not based on real faith and love.” Such people will be unwilling to recognize evil because they will have succumbed to the love of pleasure. Truth will be deserted and replaced with false doctrines (what Saint Paul refers to as “Doctrines of Demons”) which the multitudes will fully embrace.

And that time is now. Today, more than in any other period of human history, people actually want to be deluded. And this satanic delusion is leading us toward open - and very soon even physically violent - persecution. Which is why Fr. Markovitch asserts, in the essay referred to above, that: “We have a changing situation in America, where people who once had freedom of religion and association must now pay for contraception for everyone as if it were a right, even when consciences are violated. Priests and Religious Brothers and Sisters must now use their financial means to fund something condemned by the 2,000-year-old Catholic faith. This is a state of oppression worthy of a socialist dictator.”

And I might add: a Universal Dictator. One the Sacred Scriptures refer to as the Man of Sin. He who is about to reveal himself to the world.

Bishop Robert McManus, poor catechesis and the re-election of Barack Obama

An Associated Press article written by Rachel Zoll and entitled "Catholic Bishops stay course on gay marriage fight" notes that, "Obama won the overall Catholic vote, 50 percent to 48 percent...White Catholics supported Romney, 59 percent to 40 percent.  However, Latino Catholics went for Obama, 75 percent to 21 percent."  Which only serves to highlight the fact that the Republican Party needs to reach out to Hispanic voters and that the Catholic Church in the United States has done a very poor job of catechizing the faithful.

In a speech given on March 21, 2009 in Detroit, Archbishop Charles Chaput, having been asked to examine what the November 2008 election and its aftermath can teach Catholics about American culture, the state of American Catholicism and the kind of Pauline discipleship necessary today, said that, "November showed us that 40 years of American Catholic complacency and poor formation are bearing exactly the fruit we should have expected. Or to put it more discreetly, the November elections confirmed a trend, rather than created a new moment, in American culture."

Nowhere is this poor formation in more evidence than in the Diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts.  A couple of weeks ago I wrote Bishop Robert J. McManus about his promotion of New Age advocate and noted dissident Sister Joyce Rupp.  I asked His Excellency if he truly believes that it is appropriate to promote the writings of an angry feminist who rails against the Church's hierarchy and the Magisterial teaching of the Church while advancing idolatry.  I also asked why Joyce Rupp is welcome within the Diocese when I am not. I received absolutely no response whatsoever even though my tone was highly respectful.  Obviously charity is a strong suit in the Bishop's brand of Catholicism.

In this week's "Catholic" Free Press (a sort of peekaboo Catholicism if you will), His Excellency is once again promoting the "Catholic" Campaign for Human Development - CCHD.  In a message published on page 6 of this sad publication, the Bishop writes, "Through CCHD the Catholic Church is working to continue its tradition of care for the poor.  Please help the efforts of CCHD to break the cycle of poverty.  Fight poverty in America.  Defend human dignity.  Support CCHD in our diocesan collection on Novermber 17 & 18..."

The problem? CCHD is an organization which was inspired by radical agitator Saul Alinsky, a Marxist who dedicated his Rules for Radicals to Lucifer, whom he called "the first radical." It  is an umbrella organization and/or a front for various groups which dissent from the Church's authentic teaching. Especially in the area of sexual morality.


According to American Life League's Michael Hichborn, "..no less than fifty organizations (one-fifth of all CCHD grantees from 2009) are, in some capacity, engaged in pro-abortion or pro-homosexual causes."

For a number of years, there has been concern with the grants that CCHD distributes. There have been specific complaints that a significant portion of the grants have been given to organizations working in direct contradiction to Church teaching.

In 2009, American Life League joined with several other concerned organizations to form the Reform CCHD Now Coalition. In March of 2010, the coalition sent a report on CCHD to each bishop, showing that, in 2009–2010, 51 out of 237 groups receiving CCHD funding either directly or through coalition membership promoted abortion, birth control, homosexuality, and/or Marxism. Thus, 21% of the groups funded by CCHD were involved in such work.

As a result of this activity, CCHD conducted an internal effort to revamp its grant process and ensure that all grantees adhered to strict guidelines. The results were published in a CCHD Renewal Document.

2010–2011 Grantees

In January, 2011, CCHD published its list of 2010-2011 grantees. At that time, American Life League reviewed the list and was disappointed to see that many of the offending organizations were still on the list and, in fact, others have been added.

The attached report documents that, of the 218 organizations funded by CCHD, 14 are directly involved in activities contrary to Church teaching and 40 are actively involved in coalitions with such activities. Thus, 54 groups (24%) funded by CCHD are involved in anti-Catholic work.

The number, and percentage, of offending organizations has actually INCREASED in the last year —from 51 to 54 groups and from 21% to 24%.

These 54 organizations received a total of $1,863,000 of the $7,608,000 distributed in CCHD grants in 2010-2011."

The number and percentage of offending/dissenting organizations receiving CCHD monies has actually increased since 2009. In 2011, 14 organizations funded by CCHD are directly involved in activities which are contrary to Catholic teaching and another 40 are actively involved and associated with coalitions in support of such activities.

Small wonder that same-sex "marriage" has been most warmly received in New England.  Not only has there been poor catechesis but groups which actively undermine the Church's moral teaching have been funded by CCHD.  Things have gotten so bad that Barry Kosnin of the American Religious Identification Survey (2008) said that, "The decline of Catholicism in the Northeast is nothing short of stunning."

Because so many of our priests have failed to preach the faith and to take a courageous stand against the Culture of Death and the Cult of Softness, Barack Obama - champion of both - has been re-elected and can continue to wage his war against Christianity in general and the Catholic Church in particular.

And there will be judgment.

Catholics should not donate monies to CCHD. For to do so would constitute formal cooperation in an immoral project

In a letter to Mr. Paul Rondeau, the Executive Director of American Life League, Dr. William Marshner, a moral theologian who teaches at Christendom College, explains why Catholics should refrain from donating monies to the "Catholic" Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).  He writes, "..the funding of an organization is formal cooperation in what it regularly does.  But in Catholic moral theology, it is never licit to cooperate formally in an immoral project." (See here).

And, in the same letter, Dr. Marshner, referring to the report on CCHD's development grants for the fiscal year 2010-2011 prepared by Reform CCHD Now, writes, "Your Report has documented at least 11 cases which, in my judgment, are cases in which prima facie the grantee has done or promoted an immoral activity.


These cases are:

Centro Campesino (granted $35 K), which distributes condoms, as CCHD now admits; it claims to have defunded the group, but evidence for this correct decision is not yet forthcoming; the bishops are owed an explanation of what exactly has been done;

Somos un Pueblo Unido (granted $45 K), which trains immigrant women to advocate “reproductive justice” (i.e. contraception and abortion) and which took from other sources at least two grants to do so; CCHD has yet to explain its lack of response to this information;

NY City AIDS Housing Network (granted $30 K) which is listed on an NYC government website as a place to get condoms; CCHD has yet to explain its lack of response;

Southwest Organizing Project (granted $ 45 K); which is involved in the Elev8 sex-ed program, which distributes condoms and IUDs and refers for abortions at Marquette Middle School in Chicago; CCHD was informed of this problem by its own regional director, Mr. Ray Florez; to date, CCHD has explained neither its lack of response nor its termination of Mr. Florez;

Desis Rising Up and Moving (granted $ 35 K), which advocates and participates in groups advocating sexual “liberation” and abortion;

Michigan Interfaith Voice, A.K.A. Gamaliel of Michigan (granted $ 25 K), which has taken grants from the pro-abortion and pro-homosexual Arcus Foundation to advance Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual and Trans-sexual (LGBT) rights, which include a “right” to be legally “married”;

Michigan Organizing Project (granted $40 K), which has taken grants from the Arcus Foundation for the same purpose in 2007-2009 and in 2011;

Coalition LA (granted $45 K), which produced a voters’ guide favoring same-sex marriage and telling people to vote NO on the ballot-measure to repeal it; the issue here is not just how the state will treat homosexual persons but whether state law will abandon the meaning of the word ‘marriage’, contrary to Catholic doctrine;

Women’s Community Revitalization Project ($40 K), which sponsored a pro-abortion voter’s guide in Pennsyl-vania and took money from a feminist, pro-abortion organization called Women’s Way; CCHD was informed of this problem in 2009 but re-funded the group in 2010; since the bishops of PA have played an historic role in the pro-life cause, they are certainly owed a specific explanation of this payment to their declared enemy;

Philadelphia Unemployment Project (given $25 K), which, despite its good work toward issues of workers’ compensation, sponsored the same kind of pro-abortion voter’s guide; in a state as heavily Catholic and Democratic as Pennsylvania, it passes belief that the Church cannot find a pro-labor organization that keeps fully clear of the culture of death;

Restaurant Opportunities Center of NY (given $40 K), which produced “guidelines” telling businesses to make questionable accommodations to LGBT preferences, including permission to cross-dress during work-hours and to choose whichever lavatory suited the worker’s subjective preference.


In every one of these cases, the grantee has behaved in such a way that continued funding puts the Church in a position of formal cooperation (or in the apparent and proximate danger of formal cooperation) with moral evil."
 
Dr. Germain Grisez explains that formal cooperation in other's wrong acts is always wrong.  He writes, "Cooperation is formal in the following three kinds of cases: (i) one intends or one's purpose includes that another commit a sin; (ii) one shares the other's wrong intention, in the sense that the proposal one adopts - that is, precisely what one chooses to do - includes something (and perhaps everything) objectively wrong in the other's proposal; or (iii) one's proposal includes the other's successfully carrying out an objectively wrong choice.
 
In all these cases, one wills moral evil; thus, formal cooperation of all three kinds is always wrong.  It occurs in the first way, for example, when a misguided counselor encourages a person to commit embarassing sins, imagining that this will lead to his or her spiritual growth; in the second way, when a nurse who favors abortion volunteers her service in an abortion clinic, in order to help women seeking abortions to get them; in the third way, when an inspector takes bribes to approve faulty construction, wishing the fraud to succeed so that the bribery will not be exposed.
 
Formal cooperation with others' sinful acts can be by means of an omission.  For instance, a police officer who ignores criminal activities in order to obtain a percentage of the proceeds intends the success of the criminal act; thus, he or she formally cooperates with them by omitting the police work that would impede them."
 

Catholic priests who are faithful to the Church's teaching and who have a genuine love for souls will not ask the faithful entrusted to their care to donate monies to the "Catholic" Campaign for Human Development.  To do so is to ask faithful Catholics to formally cooperate in an immoral project.

Small wonder that Catholics United has been critical of Father James Rafferty's decision...

Shortly after Father James Rafferty, pastor of St. Paul's parish in Hingham, Massachusetts, denied admission to a student whose parents are lesbian, the dissent group Catholic United, which is highly partisan and supports President Obama, launched a petition accusing St. Paul's of engaging in discrimination. See here. Catholics United, at its website, describes itself as, "a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting the message of justice and the common good found at the heart of the Catholic social tradition."

But the fact that Catholics United is anything but non-partisan is obvious to anyone who takes the time to visit the organization's website. For Catholics United promotes the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), an organization which was inspired by radical agitator Saul Alinsky, a Marxist who dedicated his Rules for Radicals to Lucifer, whom he called "the first radical."

According to American Life League's Michael Hichborn, "..no less than fifty organizations (one-fifth of all CCHD grantees from 2009) are, in some capacity, engaged in pro-abortion or pro-homosexual causes." See here. And James Salt, Director of Organizing for Catholics United, has worked for Pax Christi USA, another prominent dissent group which is rooted in New Age spirtuality.


Related reading on CCHD here.

Homosexual adoption subjects children to violence. See here.