John Carr currently oversees CCHD

Let us be clear.

John Carr currently oversees the CCHD.

Thirty-one (31) CCHD grantees are partners with the Campaign for Community Change (CCC).

Among other things CCC organized to stop the Stupak Amendment which would restrict federal funding for most abortions.

Neither Carr nor the USCCB have addressed this. Nor have they addressed the charge that after Carr left the CCC’s board of directors, Tom Chabolla, associate director of programs for the CCHD until 2008, joined the board.


If John Carr and the USCCB did not know about the proabort legislative history and dissent of the groups they are funneling money into, which has been public information for ten years, their ineptitude makes them ineligible for their roles. If there were dots connecting these groups to slavery or pedophilia, this discussion would not be happening.

The USCCB's funding and connection to harmful initiatives that end in the death of children is indefensible.

Pro-life massacres at the USCCB

Reality TV has another disturbing (though not surprising) youtube on the USCCB.

They apparently have not only been paying annual dues (minimum of $1000) to be a member of the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, they are actually involved in fundraising for them.

Active leadership in a Conference for Civil and Human Rights sounds all Martin Luther Kingy, doesn't it?

Makes you think about fighting discrimination, working to protect conscience protections, religious liberties, pounding the pavement for senior citizens, legal assistance for the poor.

But, the civil rights leadership conference the USCCB fund-raises for is something completely different.

This Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights includes strategizing to defeat the pro-life movement with legislative initiatives designed to support planned parenthood and lobbied hard in Congress to defeat pro-life judges.

Like many others in the pro-life movement, I'm extremely disappointed that those who created a distraction about whether "john carr" was "pro-life" have been silent on the mounting evidence that the USCCB has been generously and radically funding legislation and initiatives that are nefarious.

With all due respect to John Carr, his characterizations that people making noise about a Bishop's Conference that has destroyed Catholic education, catechesis and our Liturgy, are "attacking" the Bishops, CCHD and now him, are people who can't find anything good to say about the Church, is a cheap shot.

"I would distinguish between those who have concern for the poor and wonder whether we're doing it the right way and those who simply disagree with the priority and the methods of CCHD," Carr said. "And then there are some who frankly have been attacking the bishops, the Conference, CCHD, and now me, and they've never found anything good to say about the church and its work."

Neither do I believe it is fair to characterize the criticism as people who just don't want to be friends with everyone or give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

"The polarization in public life is now coming over to Catholic life," Carr said. But while he would rather we "give each other the benefit of the doubt," what might be most telling about this story is how one audience member this morning responded.

"Unfortunately these days, if you're friends with everyone, somebody will condemn you," Louise Johnson of Modesto, California told me this evening. "It's not all that unusual" to hear such attacks within parishes and dioceses, she continued. "Social justice ministers run into this frequently because there's a lot of one-issue people who don't see the whole picture."

How asinine.

Nobody believes we can't be friends with people who are prochoice or for that matter work even with them on initiatives to help the poor.

We all work with people who are prochoice. What we don't do is join groups and sit on boards of directors, fund-raise for groups that make defeating the pro-life movement part of their mission, even if they give away free groceries and cars to the poor.

Giving out free groceries and cars is commendable. We can be friends with people who give out free groceries and cars. We can fund-raise and sit on their boards.

In fact, there are plenty of initiatives who work for the poor who don't simultaneously work on abortion legislation and defeating pro-life judges.

Knock yourselves out.


If slavery is part of the mission statement of people who give away groceries and cars, nobody would have any problem understanding why we can't sit on their boards of directors or funnel money into it from the USCCB.

Nobody would be in the public square implying pro-lifers are unfriendly or one-issue people who don't see the bigger picture of the good works of people promoting slavery legislation in addition to giving out groceries and cars.

They'd never have the gall.

They wouldn't get away with it.

Pro-lifers should stand up and be counted. Reject the intellectual dishonesty and nudge people into the light.


There's deafening silence from the USCCB.

Personally, I'm a little confused why Fr. Pavone is on board with this. Being fresh out of the scandal of having him actively campaign for proabortion candidate Scott Brown, perhaps my perspective is jaded.


Our friends at the American Life League and others who are indexing the breathtaking farce of the USCCB in what could very well be one the most destructive organizations to the Catholic faith from within possibly in history, not only deserve honesty, they deserve our zealous support.

I join those who are calling for a radical restructure, if not dissolution, of the USCCB.

The USCCB Waterloo

The indisputable evidence the American Life League and Bellarmine Veritas Ministries dug up demonstrating the USCCB is funneling money through CCHD to initiatives that oppose Church teaching is creating quite a dust up.


The list is long and incriminating.

As the informative video on ALL points out, the CCHD has a history of working with and funding organizations inspired by Marxist Saul Alinsky. Alinsky wrote Rules for Radicals (inciting class warfare) which he dedicated to Lucifer.

Last week Bellarmine Veritas released more compelling evidence the USCCB heavily funded CCC was even working for the “lifting restrictions on women’s access to health services” in the healthcare legislation.

ALL, who has been working on unmasking the USCCB since August, also released more disturbing subterfuge this week, Sleeping with the Enemy.

Lively discussions are taking place all over the internet relative to this citation in ALL's report:

Carr, whose work with the CCC goes back at least as far as 1983, was hired by the USCCB in 1987 as the next secretary for social development and world peace. Annual reports from the CCC reveal that Carr was on the CCC’s board of directors in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, serving on the executive committee from 1999-2001. Given his cozy relationship with the CCC, it’s no wonder the CCHD never responded to our concern over grantee membership with this radical group.

But the findings don’t end there. In 2000, while Carr was serving both organizations, the CCHD funneled $150,000 to the CCC. In 2001, the CCHD hosted the Executive Director from the CCC for a presentation at a three day conference and, in 2006, when Carr left the CCC’s board of directors, he was replaced by Tom Chabolla, who worked for Carr as associate director of programs for the CCHD until 2008. In December of 2008, the CCC co-sponsored an event called the “Realizing the Promise Forum,” rallying around the election of Barack Obama. Ralph McCloud, the current Director of the CCHD joined the celebration, proclaiming that “very soon we will see a New Jerusalem.”

The most peculiar aspect of this investigation, however, is the mysterious omission of Carr’s membership and chairmanship of the CCC’s board on his USCCB bio. With great consistency, several brochures, event announcements, forums, and bios for other organizations he is involved with give nearly word-for-word copies of his USCCB bio, with the exception that they mention his involvement with CCC, and the USCCB bio does not.

Our Sunday Visitor and others, including Fr. Pavone spoke up on behalf of Carr's pro-life credentials.

It's great Carr is pro-life. But, people with pro-life credentials can make mistakes.

John Carr and the USCCB must have known the nefarious activities of the CCC because they omitted all references to the CCC on Carr's bio. More importantly, Carr didn't strike CCC references on his other reference materials.

Gasper told LSN on Thursday that he “find[s] it telling that instead of addressing the well documented evidence brought forward in both the ALL and BVM reports, McCloud and Carr seem fixated on characterizing our efforts as a personal attack on Carr's pro-life beliefs. Neither the ALL or BVM reports question Carr on his pro-life convictions.”

Gasper said that he was “disappointed” that the “salient points” in his report have not yet been addressed yet. “Perhaps,” he said, “both Carr and McCloud's time and energy would be better spent screening some of the organizations the USCCB cooperates with rather than responding to accusations that were never made in the first place.”

Responding to Bishop Murphy's charge of 'calumny', Hichborn reiterated that they have not accused Carr of being pro-abortion or pro-homosexual. “So unless the bishops can find fault in our report about the Center for Community Change or the funding practices of the CCHD, they would do well to avoid such hyperbole,” he stated.

The Deeply irresponsible "Our Sunday Visitor" was the first to circle the wagons and use distraction.

I keep refreshing the page to see if they put any effort into the scandalous evidence against the USCCB.

Not a word.

Michael Voris does an excellent job putting the focus back where it belongs.



The USCCB is a failed experiment that has done incalculable damage to the Catholic Church.

I've read a few criticisms over Voris' use of Pope Paul VI's "the smoke of satan has entered the Church" but he is absolutely right on.

We are dealing with principalities. The devil is as real as Christ.

Let us be spiritually mature.

Nobody following the destruction at the hands of the USCCB can deny it has been an atomic bomb to the Catholic Church in America. Holy Spirit, it isn't.

Voris also tells us that this weekend, the USCCB sponsored another kooky conference filled leaders who malign the teachings of the Church and misdirect the souls of Catholics.





The reasons why we cant get a return phone call when a major Cardinal has entered into abortion contracts are becoming increasingly clear.

More disturbing news to come.

Somebody let me know when John Carr and OSV or any of the Bishops has the spinal fortitude to stand up against and speak the truth about the scandal at the USCCB?