{"id":28894,"date":"2012-04-16T10:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=28894"},"modified":"2012-04-16T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:54:53","slug":"progressive-catholics-do-damage-control-over-churchs-right-wing-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/04\/16\/progressive-catholics-do-damage-control-over-churchs-right-wing-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Catholics Do Damage Control Over Church&#8217;s Right Wing Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-041612\/2012_04_16_tosu.mp3\">this segment<\/a>  | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-041612\/2012_04_16_uprising.mp3\"> entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/catholics_united.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Immigrants in South West Colorado could see their access to vital food, health care,and shelter disrupted following a decision by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, or CCHD, to cut an annual $30,000 grant to the Durango based Compa\u00f1eros charity.  Compa\u00f1eros operates on a yearly budget of just $55,000. It lost the majority of its funding from CCHD because of its association with the Colorado Immigrants Rights Coalition, an organization whose pro-gay rights stance is at odds with the Catholic Church.  In response, Catholics United, a non-partisan group of progressive lay Catholics announced last week the creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/Withcharityforall.org\">Withcharityforall.org<\/a>, a website dedicated to collecting donations for charities de-funded by the Catholic Church over political differences. <\/p>\n<p>Catholics United Executive Director, James Salt said, \u201cThe case of Compa\u00f1eros represents a new high in the politicization of Catholic charitable organizations by the bishops,\u201d referencing the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which controls the CCHD.  The powerful Washington D.C. based interest group courted controversy earlier this year, butting heads with the Obama administration over a federal policy mandating employers to offer health insurance that includes coverage of birth control to employees.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Catholics in the United States has declined in recent years with Church membership falling by 400,000 in 2008 alone.  The church also faces a severe priest shortage. Catholics United blames the conservative Catholic hierarchy and internal Church organizations like the U.S.Conference of Catholic Bishops for driving many progressive adherents away with extreme right wing rhetoric. They note also that immigrants, who are served by charities like Campa\u00f1eros, now account for the bulk of Church growth in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Fumi Tosu, spokesperson with Catholics United <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholics-united.org\">www.catholics-united.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/Withcharityforall.org\">www.Withcharityforall.org<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this segment | entire program Immigrants in South West Colorado could see their access to vital food, health care,and shelter disrupted following a decision by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, or CCHD, to cut an annual $30,000 grant to the Durango based Compa\u00f1eros charity. Compa\u00f1eros operates on a yearly budget of just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}