Even the Devil has his problems:
A former board member of a progressive Catholic political advocacy organization said Monday the group’s former executive director, who is now vying for a Congressional seat in Tennessee, defrauded the organization and eventually left it bankrupt.
“I’m speaking publicly now, with very little interest in scoring points. I’m simply here to speak on the record, to establish a fact pattern, to help explain to the public the disappointing experience I have had with Chris Hale,” said James Salt, a former board member of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, in a livestream announcement Aug. 3.
Hale told CNA Monday night that “the idea that I drove the organization into bankruptcy or defrauded it is just fundamentally not true. I kept the organization going.”
Hale is running in the Democratic primary in Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District. His opponent in that race, Noelle Bivens, hosted a livestreamed event with Salt on Monday evening, after local media reported that Hale is accused of misusing email lists from his former employer to fundraise for his own benefit.
Salt said the political advocacy group, which aimed to advance Democratic candidates and policy initiatives by appealing to Catholics, was financially and legally harmed by Hale’s leadership of the organization.
“My job is simply to be on the record saying he did a great disservice to everyone who has worked with him.”
Go here to read the rest. Bad investment for Soros?
Good example of how revolutionaries eat their own.
I object to “Catholics for a Free Choice” being listed as a Catholic group. While I don’t doubt Soros gave them $300K, they are not a Catholic group, but instead a pro-abortion advocacy organization attempting to legitimize pro-abortion views among Catholics and misrepresent Catholic teaching to the press.
They are about as Catholic as Antifa is anti fascism, and they care about Catholicism as much as BLM actually cares about Black lives.
Which is to say, not at all.
Reply to Clinton: Yes, “Catholic group” should be in quotes. Or ‘purported “Catholic group.”’
My experience with some ostensibly “Catholic” dioceses, parishes, and orgs—is, if there is a little bit of wrongdoing that comes to the surface, it is like seeing roaches during daylight: there’s 100,000 more hidden behind the walls.
I have received so many unsolicited expressions of shock at how many parish and diocesan council people have discovered vast amounts of Catholic collection money misused, diverted, misappropriated—to indefensibly shockingly immoral causes. The Annual Diocesan Appeal ought to be called the Annual Diocesan Shearing of the Gulled Faithful. And in many (perhaps not all) dioceses, probably up to 50% goes to purely secular atheist causes. It has pain me to see families and single parents putting in their widows mite, money they really need, for these scoundrels (language cleaned up for a genteel site).
Usquoque, Domine?
There is some hope.
Sometimes a very good bishop will come in and clean out the Augean Stables to a remarkable degree. Bp. Olmsted in Phoenix did that to repair much of the immense damage and scandalous funds misappropriation that has been the previous norm under the May-God-have-mercy-on-his-soul predecessor. Of course, because he did so, he will never be elevated to a higher rank, especially under the present dissolute papacy.
And so many people, including large numbers of Hispanic Catholics, left the church during the prior decades of brigand-ship (Not sure if that is a word).
The Annual Diocesan Appeal ought to be called the Annual Diocesan Shearing of the Gulled Faithful. And in many (perhaps not all) dioceses, probably up to 50% goes to purely secular atheist causes.
I’ve long suspected people who work for the Church (especially the Bishops’ Conference) are indistinguishable from randomly selected NGO functionaries. Amy Welborn’s offered an informed opinion of the church-o-cracy based on years of attending confabs on this and that: ‘bored out of their minds careerism’.
I’d be pleased if the chancery employed a comptroller corps to keep the books for parishies – with clusters sharing a comptroller. Add to that performance auditors to keep tabs on the diocesan schools. Add to that some aparochial chaplaincies. Add to that a different set of auditors to maintain personnel records and flag problems. Add to that monitors to keep tabs on any Catholic hospitals and colleges in the diocese. The assessments on parishes would be to fund the chancery staff and make grants to uncorrupted hands-on ministries actually working in the diocese, and that would be it.
I’d also be pleased if the bishop each Sunday made at least one planned and at least one unannounced visit to one or another parish in the diocese. You could cover all of them in about 15 months in a typical diocese.
Will never happen, of course.