Monday, October 4, 2010

NOM and the Catholics: where DO those charitable dollars go?

From the Washington Independent, evidence that the KNights of Columbus, a conservative Catholic society, gave $1.4million to the National Organization for Marriage in 2009. As charity. Right up there, or even exceeding, giving help to widows and orphans.
The NOM donation eclipses what the Knights’ Supreme Council spent on some of its own charitable programs — such as its new effort supporting food banks or its total spending on education initiatives — in the same year, much to the outrage of some observers, including Catholic groups.

....Catholic activists predict that such spending on conservative causes will provoke a backlash among the faithful. “Do you think someone in New Mexico thought their donation was going to this effort in Maine, as opposed to aiding the sick and feeding the hungry?” asks George Burns, an attorney in Maine who fought NOM’s campaign to pass Amendment 1.

“If Catholics find out that while their parishes are closing, and charity work is being underfunded, that our church hierarchy is playing political games with their money, we believe that they’ll be as concerned as we are,” argues Attey.


For this and more about the coverups from NOM:

2 comments:

JCF said...

How . . . well, whipped are Roman Catholics going to remain?

"Sorry, we have to close your (and your family's, for the past 5 generations) parish: we're too busy paying out pedophile settlements and donating money to keep Teh Gays from getting [civilly] married!"

Why don't they just rise up, and say "Nuh-uh!"

Are they THAT afraid of

the [Minnesota] archbishop wrote back ... telling them that those who could not agree with "the teachings of the Catholic Church on homosexuality ... ought not participate in the sacramental life of the church." The archbishop added that the mothers' "eternal salvation" could depend on their adopting the church's position on homosexuality.

????

[Here.]

I just don't get it.

Erika Baker said...

JCF
"The archbishop added that the mothers' "eternal salvation" could depend on their adopting the church's position on homosexuality"

Do you think they officially informed God about this?