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Unfortunately, this isn’t a feel good story about a lost soul finding the Light of the World. But it is true. George Soros, the extremely leftist billionaire, an admitted atheist who believes in — and uses his vast fortune to advance — abortion on demand, homosexual marriage, euthanasia, sex workers’ rights and plethora of  radical, secular progressive issues, is a major funder of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.  

CCHD is the arm of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that the faithful support for its programs that aidthe poor. CCHD takes the money it receives and distributes grants to several organizations that work on poverty issues. Among those organizations: the notoriously corrupt ACORN. After this came to the USCCBs’ attention last year, it cut off funding to ACORN — after several years and $7.3 million hard earned dollars from the faithful.

Now, it’s a bit of the reverse. Soros, through a leftist organization he started, the Open Society Institute, has funded the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, an organization  formed by the bishops, to the tune of more than $500,000. Among the goals of the network: To advance the socialized medicine legislation now before Congress (including language permissive of taxpayer funding of abortion). So, we have an atheist funding the Catholic bishops. Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media, and writing for Right Side News, has the story, here.

Here’s an excerpt from Kincaid: 

But a review of the records of his (Soros’) Open Society Institute finds that a group calling itself Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) has received $200,000 from them over the last several years.

James Todd of Pewsitter.com, which represents traditional Catholics, calls such groups “CINOs,” or Catholics In Name Only. He explains, “This group and several others have sprung up recently — I suspect purposely organized and funded — to counterbalance the growing influence of the faithful Catholics AND to try to deceive and mislead the middle of the road Catholics that have determined the last 13 Presidential elections.”

An AIM investigation also finds, however, that Soros money has gone into the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), an organization established by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops back in 1988. It has received at least $530,000 from the Open Society Institute.

It’s a pretty tangled web, with elements of money laundering and front groups. As such, it’s pretty alarming — and disappointing about our bishops. It’s worth reading Kincaid’s entire piece — and follow the links to further educate yourself. Meanwhile, several prominent Catholics have urged boycotting contributions to the CCHD and to give directly to organizations that directly help the poor and not lobby for legislation that promotes anti-Catholic teachings.