"Occupy" Movement in Oregon Nurtured by CCHD's Past Grantees

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) will have it's collection this weekend, November 19, and 20th.  Past grantees have been given funds for decades creating the climate; creating the Occupy Portland movement and "army" to occupy the parks and streets.

Throughout the years groups like Street Roots, Sisters of the Road, Dignity Village,  PhotoVoice (a Sisters of the Road project to buy cameras for the homeless so they can film their lifestyles) and anti "Sit-Lie In"  have been funded by CCHD.  We even gave $5,000 to Dignity Village for a lawn. We are still under the spell of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon and seem to follow their lead on being progressive and liberal.  Finally, Sisters was taken off the list of grantees.

A vocal Oregon Catholic said "this is the sin of Covetousness". Catholic monies have been going to many other groups that cause discontentment.  These people need an answer.  Evangelization.  If we want to end homelessness, greed, violence...Christ and the love of Christ is the only remedy.

Funds for the unborn cannot touch the hem of the amount that "Catholic social teachings" receive.  Since "life" in the new term Office of "Life" and Justice and Peace

means anti death penalty first, immigration as the main part of Life...the unborn as still left behind, but seemingly used as a way to seem more compassionate.


Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in his, easy reading inspirational, book Way to Happiness says,

"One of the greatest mistakes is to think that contentment comes from something outside us rather than the quality of the soul. There was once a boy who only wanted a marble; when he had the marble he wanted a ball; when he had the ball, he only wanted a top; when he had a top, he only wanted a kite, when he had the marble, the ball, the top and the kite, he was still not happy.  Trying to make a discontented person happy is like trying to fill a sieve with water.  However much you pour into it, it runs out too rapidly for you to catch up."

•  History - It's All Who You Know in the Office of Justice and Peace Which Starts the Chain Reaction.

In 2003 the Office of Justice and Peace was run by Frank Fromherz who was fired by Archbishop Vlazny after decades years of aligning himself and the Archdiocese of Portland with progressive, socialist ideals. 

"Frank Fromherz of the Archdiocese of Portland's Office of Justice and Peace, one of the key organizers of the action, explains through an interview taped two weeks later the reasons for the action, its historical context, and the spiritual (and political) motivations for taking such a step. Days after the interview was conducted, Fromherz was fired from his job by the Archdiocese. He was let go at least in part for his outspoken activism against the war, despite the fact that the Pope himself was against the war."
(A letter he wrote sealed his fate, will add soon)

The "founder" of "Dignity Village" was Frank Tafari a friend of Fromherz's.

Archbishop Vlazny and Bishop Steiner to Retire in 2012

• Archbishop Vlazny and Bishop Steiner will be retiring in early to mid 2012.

They are sending in their letters of impending retirement to Rome. We wish them well and thank them for their sacrifices.

• With the 2011 USCCB fall meeting in session our two Archbishops:one known and one unknown are in Baltimore, Maryland from November 14-16.

We pray for our new Archbishop, whoever he is, and know that our new shepherd will be the Lord's Will for Western Oregon.

$64,000 Salaries; Archdpdx, CCHD and "Fiscal Incest" Part one: VOZ

"This fiscal incest was the instrument through which control was maintained and leverage enjoyed." John Kenneth Galbraith. The Great Crash of 1929.  

The Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) collection will be starting in mid-November this year. Progressive groups have been the recipients for decades in Oregon. 

Their tangled web, or "fiscal incest" as coined by economist John Kenneth Galbraith is a "long chain of holdings by one company in another." Alinzky organizations are used for leverage and and control of ideals that are not in keeping with the Catholic Church. 

This list shows some "allies" of Oregon Action, a Communistic collection of groups that CCHD in Oregon has been involved with for decades,who has changed it's website but this was saved a while ago. Today, some names have been changed from "ACORN" but they are still Saul Alinskyian organizations. 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

• "The projects must be by the poor, not just for the poor," said Matt Cato (Office of Justice and Peace), who emphasized that grants go only to projects that fit into principles of Catholic social teaching, including respect for the dignity of human life, from conception to natural death."

• How can a staff making over $64,000 even be considered when the CCHD guidelines have been violated for ten years?

• VOZ Staff and Board: $64,000. Average Salary

• VOZ recipient of large national grants and local Oregon grants for TEN YEARS

VOZ will not be adversely affected because they have many avenues of revenue. Any federal and states grants are already taken out of our paychecks. There are few people who run many organizations. They believe in their causes, but they are not to be paid with Catholic collection plate money. For ten years we have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to VOZ. Its connections to pro-abortion, "lesbian, gay, bisexual. transgender, queer connection", along with La Raza (anti-US) promotions needs to be stopped until CCHD is extinct. What to do?

• OVERSIGHT and apologies from the "invisible Oregon CCHD committee"

• Those on the committee that choose VOZ for ten years should be investigated and fired.

• We should be privy to who is on this committee.

• There is in-house funny business at the Archdiocese of Portland and it should be exposed.

• There is "fiscal incest" to ACORN type groups that promote anti-Catholic values.

• There salaries are not in line with Matt Cato's statement above. What does he get if this is poverty wages?

• Our collection plate money is being used with political motivations and leverage to continue anti-Catholic values.

• The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is NOT mandatory.

• We can donate our hard earned money to organizations we believe in without being told what to do. They must think we're so hard-hearted that the Holy Spirit in our lives only comes from CCHD.

• IDEA! Post organizations deemed worthy of financing on the USCCB website. This eliminates the need for administration costs, banquets to congratulate themselves and"fiscal incest".

• IDEA! CCHD, start respecting the laity and stop feeling so superior. We're all here to serve the Lord and be with Him forever in Heaven.

"Byrdes of on kynde and color flok and flye allwayes together."

ACORN-Soros-Obama Connections a Parallel Universe with our Catholic Church and CCHD

ACORN -Soros-Obama Connections from the "Conservative Goddess"

A few weeks ago I started doing a little poking around on the ACORN website. I had heard many times about all the connections between Soros, Acorn and the Administration. However, I guess I wanted to see for myself. I found some interesting things that prompted me to dig a little further. Some of this information may be old news but I thought it was worth sharing. I think this shows the complete circle. First I have provided a summary of how I see things. Further down are links and other information I found.

ACORN: Organization with Not-for-Profit Status that hides behind the "non-partisan" facade so as to continue receiving tax payer funding. Exposed for corrupt practices including facilitating prostitution and voter fraud aligations.

GEORGE SOROS - Ultra Liberal and Ultra Rich financier of ACORN, Barack Obama Campaign, Media Matters, Open Society Institute, and a spider web of other organizations and causes. Owns much of the media.

BARACK OBAMA/Democrat Party - Benefits by ACORN's eagerness to keep the money flowing by using voter registration to build their membership and thus their donations. Supports (or did) ACORN so as to please the one holding the purse strings (SOROS), the motor behind his campaign.

ACORN uses Soros funded "organizing" software (democracy in action) to compile their databases and collect donations. A COMPLETE CIRCLE!

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VOCAL says. Check out web addresses and you'll find

• http://www2.democracyinaction.org on Anti-Death Penalty groups endorsed and promoted by the Archdiocese of Portland. SOROS money

• Someone wanting to make a Donation would click on a link that re-directs them here... https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/2749/t/4538/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=276

• What is “Salsa Wired for Change? http://salsa.wiredforchange.com

• It is software for organizers and not-for-profits “organize and energize people”

• “Democracy in Action”… “Wiring the Progressive Movement” at: http://www2.democracyinaction.org

• This site leads to a link for. Open Society Institute http://www.soros.org Open Society’s Institute Annual Report: http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/publications/ ar08_20090720/i_osi_exp_credits.pdf

• http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5181&category=79

• Soros is also behind a political fundraising group called Democracy Alliance which supported the goals of the U.S. Democratic Party. Democracy Alliance is also backed by SEIU. According to Matthew Vadum, a senior editor at the conservative Capital Research Center, Democracy Alliance members gave more than $100 million to liberal nonprofit groups:

• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)

• America Votes

• Center for Community Change

• Catalist

• EMILY's List

• Sierra Club

• USAction

• Air America Radio

• Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)

• Media Matters for America

• Center for Independent Media

• People for the American Way

• Center for American Progress

• Economic Policy Institute

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

• Center for Progressive Leadership

• New Democrat Network

• Progressive Majority

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From EWTN

21-October-2008 -- Catholic News Agency "Catholic" Political Groups Being Financed by George Soros New York, Oct 20, 2008 (CNA).- The Catholic League’s president Bill Donohue has come out swinging at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and Catholics United for having ties to the left-wing financier George Soros. Donohue charges that Soros’ liberal credentials couldn’t be more clear, citing a 2005 campaign by Soros-financed Moveon.org to convince Americans that they should back Democrats efforts to filibuster President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees to the Supreme Court. At the time of Moveon.org's effort Donohue described it in a statement as: “a picture of a smiling Pope Benedict XVI holding a gavel outside the U.S. Supreme Court, along with the following inscription: ‘God Already Has a Job…He does not need one on the Supreme Court’.” Although the incident occurred in 2005, Donohue now says that Soros is financing two organizations that have close ties to the Democrat Party and are “apologists for abortion rights.” According to The Catholic Key, Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, the Chair of the Board of Directors for Catholics in Alliance is the wife of former Democratic National Committee finance chair, Smith Bagley. “Ambassador Bagley has herself given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the DNC, as well as to numerous stridently pro-choice Democratic candidates including, Barack Obama, Al Franken, Barbara Boxer, Claire McCaskill, Charles Schumer and The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund," The Catholic Key reported. Catholics United also has ties to the Democrat Party, according to the group's web site. Catholics United Director of Organizing, James Salt, "oversaw the Kansas Democratic Party's faith outreach efforts, including messaging work for Governor Sebelius and development of faith-based messaging resources," the site says. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is currently in hot water with Archbishop Joseph Naumann for her close ties to abortionist George Tiller and her support for abortion. Donohue alleges that these groups also have monetary links to George Soros. “In 2006, Soros’ Open Society Institute gave Catholics in Alliance $100,000 (double the amount he gave in 2005), and in the same year Catholics in Alliance listed Catholics United on its 990 (line 80b) as an organization with which it has a formal relationship,” Donohue asserts in documentation the Catholic League provided to CNA. As further proof of a link, the Catholic League president cites a May 20, 2006 Washington Post article in which John Podesta, who runs the Soros-funded organization, Center for American Progress, “admits that he works closely with Catholics in Alliance and Catholics United.” In an email to CNA on Monday, Catholics United president Chris Korzen denied any links to Soros. “Catholics United has no connection with Mr. Soros. We have taken money from neither him nor OSI,” he said. The Catholic League’s Director of Communications, Susan Fani, responded to Korzen's denial by telling CNA that the League stands by its statement and that the evidence is well documented. For his part, Donohue believes that George Soros, who is Jewish, is driven to fund Catholic groups because he has an agenda to normalize Catholic support for abortion. “The reason Soros funds the Catholic Left is the same reason he lavishly funds Catholics for Choice, the pro-abortion group that has twice been condemned as a fraud by Catholic bishops: they all service his agenda, namely, to make support for abortion rights a respectable Catholic position,” Donohue stated on Monday. As reported by CNA last Friday, Catholics in Alliance and Catholics United both came under fire from Archbishop Chaput of Denver, who said that the groups are doing a “disservice” to the Catholic Church.

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