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By Michael Hichborn, Church Militant - Over the summer, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), an anti-poverty program run by the USCCB, provided a $750,000 Strategic National Grant to the Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN). Shortly after the June announcement of the grant, The Lepanto Institute reported that the ISN regularly held workshops promoting homosexual and transgender activism. (the workshops) included presentations by same-sex “marriage” advocacy organizations like New Ways Ministry and Dignity USA — the USCCB’s Communications Manager for Social Mission, Alexandra Carroll, claimed that ISN “was not encouraging or promoting anything contrary to Catholic teaching.”

By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing - Every November since 2016, my thoughts return to the incidents – the demonstrations, the slanders – that ruined the evening of my career at Providence College, where I’d taught for twenty-seven years, and where I’d been the school’s most prolific author and its most energetic booster among the faculty… My friends at the time laid a great deal of the blame upon clericalism. As they saw it, the Dominican priests hung together, even though they knew that two among their number were much in the wrong. And the bishop’s chargé d’affaires also provided cover, discouraging his superior from getting involved.

By Judie Brown, American Life League - The four words “Catholic bishops debate abortion” may sound like an oxymoron, but to me it is a clear sign that the devil’s foothold in the Catholic Church is must stronger than anyone could have imagined… It is beyond our comprehension that the full assembly of Catholic bishops actually had to vote between the following statement and the Cupich amendment that would have made the statement even weaker: “The threat of abortion remains our preeminent priority because it directly attacks life itself, because it takes place within the sanctuary of the family, and because of the number of lives destroyed. At the same time, we cannot dismiss or ignore other serious threats to human life and dignity such as racism, the environmental crisis, poverty and the death penalty.”