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1. Sounds like a contest of, "will the real Catholic Bishop please stand up." How silly these high hat guys seem, guys in management for the Catholic Church in the USA can't agree, how very sad.

   Posted By: Tony

2. as with anything, if the money stops coming in the collections will stop.

   Posted By: Joe

3. Jump on the band wagon for social justice! Give all the money away! Glad to see common sense under these Mitres...Amen! The great social catholic revolution is mired in its own mud.

   Posted By: john pat

4. Tony is right - this is not only sad, but asinine.
   
   The principle of collegiality means that the college of bishops speak in unity. When a handful of bishops decide that they are more whatever than the entire conference, it is a breach of collegiality. Bet these guys wouldn't tolerate four of their priests ignoring the bishop's policy on something.
   
   Lest one forget, the CCHD is an offical body of the USCCB, not unlike Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Charities. Those in opposition to the CCHD have a valid concern about the use of the money, but those valid concerns have been well and extensively addressed. All that remains is a small and reactionary cadre of self-appointed guardians of their own version of orthodoxy. Essentially, they oppose any efforts to improve the state of the poor since they ignorantly believe that such efforts is tantamount to Marxist socialism (David Horowitz has, in fact, declared the CCHD a Marxist organization). Such individuals claim fidelity to the Magisterium, but their actions and attitudes firmly establish them as defiant dissidents with no interest or concern for justice.
   
   Woe unto you . . .

   Posted By: Waldhof

5. Once again we read of the divisive nature of those who would lead us, and once again the voices who cite the absolute and unarguable authority of the magisterium and the church leaders of the 'one true faith' cowardly quiet. Hypocrites! You bind up heavy loads for others to carry whle not lifting a finger to help them. Blind guides!
   There is no pure authority other than God; not even the men who claim to translate from on high what is right and wrong. We are the church - not gold, not silver, not elaborate costumes and headgear.
   As long as Rome holds fast to the order of how it controls its church, there will never be change, consensus, peace. We can shout all we want; we can make sound, rational, logical, theological arguments, but there will be no change. We can withhhold money, and there will be no change. We can call attention to case after case of mismanagement, even to the sinful behavior of those in charge, and there will be no change. We can celebrate the sacrifice of those who keep the poor and less fortunate among us alive, but there will be no change. Upon this rock, indeed.
   So we receive communion without going to confession - who cares? We have affairs, fights and moments of weakness in the face of sin, but we ante up every Sunday in the collection plate - who cares? We live together outside of wedlock, we are gay, we have had an abortion or we have consented to letting a loved one die in the face of terrible suffering, but we say "good morning, father", or "how are you sister", and who cares?
   Not the church - it has grown to something beyond caring for us - it cares only for itself.
   Wow. I sound angry, don't I?

   Posted By: Evagrius

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