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By Peter M.J. Stravinskas, Catholic World Report - St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: “The wind symbolizes the temptations and persecution the Church will suffer due to lack of love. For, as St. Augustine says, when love grows cold, the sea becomes rougher and the boat begins to founder. Yet the wind, the storm, the waves and the darkness will fail to put it off course and wreck it.” As Our Lord chides the Apostles, we should hear Him speaking to us as well, 2000 years later: “Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?”

By Jayd Henricks, First Things - In 1969, the U.S. bishops created the CCHD. Its mission is to fund programs that address “systems and structures” of injustice and poverty in America... over the years many CCHD programs have not upheld basic principles of Catholic social teaching. The CCHD has also used its money to fund left-wing political groups and support community organizing programs... There is a moral obligation for bishops to be good stewards of the Church’s treasury. Whether supporting CCHD is good stewardship is a question that the bishops have not seriously considered for far too long. Now is the time.