President Franklin Roosevelt once said, " Governments duty is not to help those who need it least, but to help those who need it most". Catholic scripture shows that God preached the same things. Conservative politicians try to strike fear in people by declaring it "socialism" or "redistribution of wealth".

If conservative Catholics spent more time attending Mass and reading the gospel and less time listening to Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh, maybe they would learn what compassion for others really means. Conservative Catholics attempts to suspend CCHD grants has nothing to do with abortion. Most of them are using the abortion issue only as a means to gain political power back. More tax cuts for Corporate America and for the wealthiest citizens in this country is a much higher priority for them. They could care less about social justice for the poor and most vulnerable people in this country. It all comes down to money and greed.

If the conservatives main concern is abortion, why didn't they speak out loudly when the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress did next to nothing about trying to pass a abortion bill when they held all the power from 2000 to 2006.?

If I vote democratic, I go to hell, and if I vote Republican, my country goes to hell!

I don't support abortion or gay marriage and I don't support the orgys on Wall Street that brought this country to its knees.

We just experienced 8 years of pure capitalism and deregulation that generated massive profits for a conservative movement at a terrible cost for most of the country. And the conservative candidates are out trumpeting the benefits of more deregulation of the financial markets - a combination of raw greed and insanity.

And the anti-abortion postion of the conservatives appears to be a smoke screen, a red meat issue which is their meal ticket to power. There is no effort by the conservatives to limit or halt abortion when they have full control of all branches of government.

Just as there is no effort by conservatives to reform health care. The experts behind the scenes are now acknowledging that health care in the future will be a luxury that only the wealthy can afford.

We need a third party.

Until this year, I never donated to CCHD because I thought their funding strategy was actually a little tepid. When I learned that arch-conservatives had issues with non-profits like the Center for Community Change, I knew the attacks were baseless. I'm very familiar with the Center and know that none of it's campaigns involve abortion. I made a contribution to CCHD this last Fall, and will continue to do so in future years. I also signed on to your petition. Thanks for providing a counter voice to this nonsense.

Shouldn't the Leftist catholics here admit their own biases if they're going to criticize that of others?

If anyone were serious about finding out the truth about these 'attacks', shouldn't they go and read the reports themselves?

Yes, Benedict XVI wrote that "Justice is inseparable from Charity". In the same encyclical, he also repeatedly made the point that Justice is essentially supportive of, and subservient to, true Christian Charity, and to see Justice as an end in itself, divorced from an authentic understanding of the human person, is to distort both justice and charity.

As the reports clearly show, many CCHD grantees are still advocating abortion and other heinous things that should concern even the Leftists on this site. Why does Catholics United insist on ignoring the actual reports, and just repeating CCHD spin as if it were fact?

The Right has no shame. I do not know what scriptures they read or what they know about our faith and traditions. It is a sad state to hear their anti social justice views coming from Catholics.