Yesterday, someone forwarded to the Lepanto Institute an email from Ralph McCloud, the Executive Director for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). McCloud’s email was written to address recent concerns raised by the Lepanto Institute regarding CCHD grants. You can read McCloud’s email here.In typical fashion, McCloud never actually addressed any specific concerns, but stressed the CCHD’s procedure for allegedly ensuring a high standard of accountability. At the beginning of … [Read more...]
Statement Regarding LGBT Activist and World Meeting of Families
by Michael HichbornOn the 29th of May, the Lepanto Institute published a brief report indicating that an LGBT activist is the Exhibit and Sponsor Manager for the World Meeting of Families 2015. I wish to begin by expressing my sincere apology to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for not contacting them or Archbishop Chaput before publishing this article. My intent was not to criticize either the World Meeting of Families or the Archdiocese (which I never mentioned in the original … [Read more...]
CRS President Doubles-Down on Funding Contraception Providers, Employing Same-Sex ‘Married’ Executives
In a recent interview with John Burger of Aleteia, Dr. Carolyn Woo, president of Catholic Relief Services, doubled down on CRS’s commitment to maintaining dues-paying memberships in contraception and abortion spreading organizations, providing funds to abortion and contraception distributing organizations, and retaining the employment of a vice president who is a homosexual activist in a same-sex “marriage.” During the interview, Dr. Woo was asked, “CRS has been criticized by some for failing to … [Read more...]