"Capital Campaign" Confusion or Collusion?

With all due respect to the Archbishop, the "Sharing our Faith, Shaping Our Future" Capital Campaign regarding where the money goes is confusion or collusion.  Your guess is as good as mine.

When this Capital Campaign began in 2010, the Archbishop's Catholic Appeal which garners around $3.65 million was to happen at the same time.  Different "campaigns" at the same time.

There were two problems with this for Oregon Catholic priests and laity, some of the categories would be the same with monies combined, but we were told they would have oversight, so not to worry.

Well, worry they did and it was changed to cancelling the Archbishop's Annual Appeal, sort of.

• Archbishop Used First Funds from Capital Campaign to pay for Appeal He Cancelled from February 16, 2011 
  
  
  "We decided to eliminate the annual appeal this year and use the first dollars collected in the capital campaign to provide the funds that would ordinarily be collected in the annual appeal for our 2011-12 fiscal year." The annual appeal will be back next year.(VOCAL - What? We already paid $3.65 million for the appeal this year with Capital Campaign money.)
  
  "The other concern was protection of funds with the assurance that they would be distributed appropriately.  A separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious corporation has been established.  A board of lay leaders and clergy from the archdiocese is overseeing the collection and distribution of the funds, operating independently from archdiocesan office." (VOCAL this slight of hand with our money is confusion that shows their incompetence, or collusion to dupe us.)

Here is the latest.

• The Archbishop's new article in the Catholic Sentinel is entitled May 3, 2011 Article in Full  and is directly in opposition to the information the Archdiocese has sent previously.
  

• "Capital Campaign Postscript:.......

"The Capital Campaign chugs along building momentum throughout the spring. Now that you have a better picture of some of the challenges we face in providing for the education of our future priests, I hope you will make a pledge this month, if you have not done so already. In recent years we have funded priestly formation through the annual appeal and funds that were restricted for seminary education. Without an appeal this year and with only enough funds left in the restricted account for the education of four or five of our men, I am obviously counting on your willingness to pledge and make payments as soon as possible. We are all responsible for “sharing our faith and shaping our future.” But we truly need well trained priests to take the lead. Please help me send good pastors into the fertile fields of western Oregon!"

From the same article.....

• "Interestingly, I recently received word that one of our parishes reports a disinterest in supporting the goals of the campaign and as a result parish leadership is opposed to the idea of participating in the campaign.  Clearly there has been some misunderstanding and maybe some of you yourselves need an update about the challenge of providing priestly “gifts of the spirit” in the years to come."

No, I think they're using their discernment on this one, there's no misunderstanding.  Please don't update us anymore.  How courageous of them being good stewards of The Lord's finances.

With this under sight we need transparency before we give to campaigns conducted by staff that thinks we are a means to an end.  The Archdiocesan hierarchy does not mean spiritual anarchy.

"My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth."
1 John 3:18

Religion in the "Modern World" aka Archdiocese of Portland's Curriculum

 

This is an excellent article, It shows the progression from Neitzsche to Jung to Freud and to many more "modern" "teachers".  Zanzig Catholic Curriculum is part of this "thought".  We are teaching "the Earth Charter" in our Catholic schools and have for many years which is against our beliefs.

Nietzche went permanently insane and Freud's autobiography says he heard voices and had insane writings.

It is shows how this leads to mental confusion, breakdown and the use of our young to victims of sexual abuse and moral demise.

 Nietzsche and the Church Scandals click

   "The methods are based on "the group therapy technique" first developed in America in the 1970's by two psychologists, Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. They described how emotional conditioning should be carried out by a group "facilitator". The facilitator does not impart knowledge like the old fashioned teacher. Instead he/she initiates discussions encouraging children to reveal their personal views and feelings. The facilitator's approach is "value free". There is no right or wrong answer to any religious or moral question. Each person discloses what is right or wrong for them. All choices are equally valid even if they are opposites. Everything depends on feelings or emotions. Reason and conscience are discouraged. If anyone attempts objective evaluation, they are to be treated as an "outsider" and there will be a strong emotional reaction against such "judgemental intolerance"."

Saving Souls One Child At a Time - Without Bureaucracy

"Saul in the Family" - Alinsky and the Archdiocese of Portland

“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”          Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

There is a spiritual cancer in the Archdiocese of Portland that, being left unchecked by faithful laity, threatens to ruin many souls.  It is called Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good (MACG).

MACG is given life by Oregon Catholic churches that will not allow true Catholic teachings as the main focal point, but welcomes evil as truth.  The affiliations are anti-Catholic, pro-homosexual and an occasion of mortal sin for all involved.

Saul Alinsky is their pope.  Benedict the XVI is obsolete.

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MACG began as Fair Share Research and Education Fund (FSRE) a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 1981 as a supporting organization of Oregon Fair Share. When Oregon Fair Share closed in 1997 and morphed into being part of Fair Share Alliance.  FSRE affiliated with Fair Share Research and Education Fund does business as the Oregon Action Fund, a name that more explicitly demonstrates the link between the Oregon Action Fund/Fair Share Research and Education Fund

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Oregon Action, supports its work, which carries on the tradition of chapter-based, multi-issue grassroots organizing in Oregon.
Oregon Action has received tens of thousands of dollars throughout the years from Oregon Catholics through Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD)
Oregon Action affiliations:

Oregon Action is a member of...

• Affordable Housing Coalition
• America Votes
• APANO
• Coalition for a Livable Future
• Jobs with Justice
• National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support
• Northwest Federation of Community Organizations
• Oregon Campaign for Economic Justice
• Oregonians for Health Security
• USAction

Oregon Action Works with:

• ACORN
• American Civil Liberties Union - Oregon
• AFL-CIO - Oregon
• Basic Rights Oregon
• CAUSA
• Center for Intercultural Organizing
• Community Development Network
• Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
• Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network
• Fair and Clean Energy Coalition
• MoveOn.org
• Oregon Food Bank
• Oregon Human Rights Campaign
• Oregon Revenue Coalition
• Oregon Rural Action
• OSPIRG
• PCUN
• Rural Organizing Project
• SEIU Local 503
• Sisters of the Road
• The Tree Institute
• VOZ

Oregon Action is assisted by...             

• Alliance For Justice
• Applied Research Center
• Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
• Center for Community Change
• Center for Third World Organizing
• Data Center
• Families USA
• Food Research and Action Center
• Midwest Academy
• Money In Politics Research Action Project
• National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
• National Voice
• Oregon Center for Progressive Policy
• SPIN Project
• TACS
• Western States Center

These are mostly 501 C-3 Organizations that receive tax money from us too.  We still fund many of these organizations and have for years through CCHD and our Sunday collections.
 
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Portland Organizing Project (POP) was next in line - Given $60,000 from Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) to this Alinsky-based organization using the Church as a cash cow.

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Metropolitan Broad Base came after POP

Catholic Sentinel Praising Saul

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MACG was founded on May 23, 2002 came after Metropolitan Broad Base. (Info in link above)

MACG - who we are.  Bringing IAF into Oregon Catholic Churches.

Saul Alinksy's Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) was the foundation for 80+ groups that were funded by the Catholic church.
"The leaders and organizers of the Industrial Areas Foundation build organizations whose primary purpose is power - the ability to act - and whose chief product is equitable social change. The IAF is non-ideological and strictly non-partisan, but proudly, publicly, and persistently political. Through local affiliates, the IAF builds a political base among voluntary institutions that includes religious congregations, labor locals, homeowner groups, recovery groups, parents associations, non-profits, immigrant societies, schools, seminaries, orders of men and women religious, and others. "

Among the most vital tenets of Alinsky’s method were the following:

• “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more live up to their own rules than the Christian Church can live up to Christianity.”[75]
• “No organization, including organized religion, can live up to the letter of its own book. You can club them to death with their ‘book’ of rules and regulations.”[76]

Monsignor Jack Egan helped establish the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, which funded ACORN, Gamaliel (President Barack Obama trained as a community organizer with Gamaliel in the 1980′s), and the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), established by Alinsky. Egan sat on the IAF board and Call to Action's.

  "Make up your mind, Jack," Alinsky said, "whether you want to be a priest or a bishop. All other decisions will flow from that one."


One common denominator of this great evil is "Chicago".  Many of the staff of the Archdiocese of Portland are from Chicago and know Alinsky quite well and seem to have chosen Al over the Pope. 

Pope Benedict XVI - "we don't listen to God because it would disturb us and so we remain indifferent to evil". ..

(A year later) Unanswered letter to Mary Jo Tully re: "Father Roy Bourgeois evening, an Archdpdx problem."

This year old letter put lots of pieces together regarding the disobedience to Church teaching we have in the Archdiocese of Portland.  Things haven't changed, the bankruptcy means nothing to the Archdiocese of Portland it seems.  Their lifestyle is still the same and the Catholics who love the Pope and the Church are not treated with the same respect as dissidents. 

When we write to get clarification or help, we are ignored...treated as orphans...but we know Truth  from fiction...and more is coming into the Light.  One year later, still no reply or courtesy.  This seems to be the way things work for so many of us.


Dear Mary Jo,                                                       April 6, 2010
 
Below you will find a meeting advertised for Fr. Roy again.  Last year he was in Portland at a Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon Church too.  This Call To Action meeting will also have Toni Tortorilla and Sandra De Master two self professed "women priests". 

This is bad publicity for the Archdiocese of Portland and the reputation of the Archbishop.  Please note that there are people getting alerted to this scandal who are not happy.

I will also CC this to the Archbishop.

Do you see this as a problem?

Carolyn Wendell
from VOCAL
torjohnson@archdpdx.org,  (Archbishop's Secretary)
mjtully@archdpdx.org (Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Portland)
date Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:24 PM


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Why the Fuss?
 

2006 Vatican affirms bishop's excommunication of Call to Action members
By S.L. Hansen
12/8/2006
LINCOLN, Neb. (CNS) – The Vatican has upheld Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz's decision 10 years ago that membership in Call to Action "is totally incompatible with the Catholic faith" and results in automatic excommunication.
"The judgment of the Holy See is that the activities of Call to Action in the course of these years are in contrast with the Catholic faith due to views and positions held which are unacceptable from a doctrinal and disciplinary standpoint

2008 In August 2008, Fr. Bourgeois   participated in and delivered the homily at the ordinationWomenpriests, at a Unitarian Universalist church in Lexington, Kentucky.^[4] Fr. Bourgeois received a 30 days' notice as of October 21, 2008 regarding possible excommunication for this action. He was later latae sententiae excommunicated.^[4] On March 18, 2011, Fr. Bourgeois was given a letter from the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers notifying him that he had 15 days to recant his support for women's ordination or he would face expulsion from the order. (VOCAL - He still will not recant.)

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Ad for "Father Roy" from 2010 Call to Action email.

The local Catholic Call to Action chapter that meets monthly at Central Lutheran is sponsoring an evening with Fr. Roy Bourgeois here on Friday, April 9th at 7:00 PM.  We would like to cordially invite anyone from your worshipping community to join us for this event.

Fr. Bourgeois is known for his lifetime of work on behalf of peace and justice. He founded the School of the Americas Watch which demonstrates at Ft.Benning, GA each year, and is a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.

He has taken a very courageous public position in favor of the ordination of women to the Catholic priesthood.  Our event is part of a national tour to bring attention to the injustice of the ban on women in the priesthood.

Presenting along with him will be three local women church leaders, Laurie Larson Caesar, the Lutheran pastor from Mission of the Atonement in Beaverton,
(VOCAL -This connects Call to Action with Mission of the Atonement that Bishop Steiner is involved in.) and two Roman Catholic Women priests. 

This is a wonderful opportunity to hear about how people are called to a prophetic role by following their conscience!  There is no fee for this presentation but we are suggesting a $10 free will offering if you are able.

We hope you will invite your friends and neighbors and join us for an inspiring evening!  For more information call 503-238-1942 or email ndbdpdx@comcast.net

Central Lutheran Church  (VOCAL - Belongs to Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon)

1820 NE 21st Ave

Portland, OR  97212

503-284-2331

office@centralportland.org

Post-Traditional Service 10:15AM


Divine Truth

The fact that the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Mother of the 

Church,received neither the mission proper to the apostles nor the 

ministerial priesthood clearly shows that the non admission of women 

to priestly ordination cannot mean that as a discrimination against them,

the Pope wrote:

  "Rather, it is to be seen as the faithful observance of a plan to be 
ascribed to the Wisdom of the  Lord of the Universe."