Still No Word out of the USCCB on Tom Chabolla

This is the same kind of honesty and transparency that hid perverts and protected Sean Cardinal O'Malley as the ink was drying on his abortion contracts and the money was changing hands.

Jesus weeps.

The U.S. Bishops' Conference (USCCB) recently defended John Carr, the executive director of the USCCB's Office of Justice, Peace, and Human Development, from criticisms by the Reform CCHD Now Coalition (RCN) by asserting that a group he chaired only began its abortion and homosexual advocacy after he left the board.  But the RCN Coalition is now asking how the USCCB can explain the fact that another USCCB official joined the same board after Carr left, and continues to serve on that board while acting as an official consultant to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).

Stephen Phelan, communications manager for Human Life International, and a representative of RCN, told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that RCN is “dismayed” that the only response from the USCCB following two February 1st reports documenting the pro-abortion and homosexualist activities of the Center for Community Change has been to defend Carr.

“It's never about a single person.  It's a pattern,” he said.

CCHD has been subject to criticism for years, but the pressure has mounted in the last couple years following revelations that they have funded groups who promote abortion, contraception, and homosexualism.  This led at least six bishops to opt out of the collection in 2009.


Since August, RCN has claimed to have found evidence implicating 45 CCHD grantees in questionable activities; however, so far only two grants have been ended, with two other groups being defended, and two further groups getting renewed investigation.

While members of the USCCB have made several general statements reproving the calls for reform, no direct response has been given to specific charges against grant recipients.

RCN had highlighted John Carr's long-term involvement with the CCC as evidence of an alleged “pattern” of cooperation with groups advocating against Church teaching. But they say the pattern is even more strongly apparent in former CCHD associate director of programs Tom Chabolla’s involvement with the CCC.

Chabolla joined the board of CCC in 2006, and continues now as a board member.