Last week, the Lepanto Institute reported on $240,000 the CCHD provided to an LGBT-advocating organization in San Francisco. Click here to read the report.
For five consecutive years, from 2012-2017, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) annual granting agency called the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) provided a total of $280,000 to a radical organization involved in the promotion of homosexuality and abortion.
The Community Alliance of Tenants (CAT) received the following grants:
It is important to note that this money was provided by every diocese in the United States that participates in the CCHD collection. Whenever a diocese takes up the CCHD collection (typically the third Sunday of November), 25% of that funding remains with the diocese while the other 75% goes to the National CCHD and is redistributed to groups like this one.
Last year, the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon gave a “Certificate of Recognition” to CAT signed by Bp. Peter Smith and Portland CCHD Director, Matt Cato. In a facebook posting of an image of this certificate, CAT said, “We are grateful to the Archdiocese of Catholic Campaign for Human Development for honoring us tonight and through the years.” 
On October 31, 2016, the Archdiocesan office of Life, Justice and Peace produced a video promoting CAT, wherein the executive director says, “Without CCHD support, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do.”
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=X95K7FWoE8Q
So, what DOES the Community Alliance of Tenants do?
CAT is on the Steering Committee of an Abortion Promoting Organization
Joined by organizations like Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice, and others, CAT is not only a member of, but is on the steering committee of an coalition called “Fair Shot For All.”
Fair Shot for All was founded in 2014 and is actively involved in the promotion of homosexuality and abortion. According to snapshots obtained through the internet archive site, the Wayback Machine, CAT joined Fair Shot for All sometime between August 21, 2016 and February 15, 2017. As a member of the Steering Committee of Fair Shot for All, CAT is directly responsible for the decisions, actions, and public positions taken by the coalition.
In this backgrounder from 2017, CAT directly participated in Fair Shot for All’s 2017 agenda, which specifically advocated for abortion. On page 1 of the flyer, 2 of the flyer, Fair Shot for All identifies “Reproductive Health Equity” wherein they identify access to abortion and providing “women’s reproductive services” to men who pretend to be women. It says:
Many are categorically denied health coverage due to their citizenship status. Others still face barriers to affordable birth control while high deductible plans are a serious pocketbook issue, leaving abortion inaccessible for many. In addition, transgender and gender-nonconforming people are often denied coverage for services often categorized as “women’s” health care because of the gender marker on their insurance card.
At the end of the page, Fair Shot for All says that it is standing up for “LGBTQ Communities” and identifies CAT as one of its members.
Currently, CAT (as represented by Fair Shot for All), stands in opposition to a ballot measure that would prohibit public funding from going to abortions.
Ballotopia shows that Ballot initiative 106 would ban public funding for abortion, showing what a yes vote indicates and what a no vote indicates. The Oregon Catholic Conference is identified as a supporter of the bill, and CAT’s coalition, Fair Shot for All, is standing with Planned Parenthood against it.
And just to illustrate what is happening here, to the left is an image of Katrina Holland, CAT’s executive director, at the Archdiocese of Portland, preparing represent CAT as it is honored as a CCHD grantee. To the right is Holland in a group photo from Dec. 2016 on Fair Shot for All’s facebook page, standing next to two women holding “Reproductive Health Equity” signs.
Now … before critics start complaining about how this is the action of a coalition, and not the organization being granted funding, it is important to remember two things.
- The CCHD grant guidelines which came out of the 2010 Review and Renewal specifically state, “CCHD will not fund groups that are members of coalitions which have as their organizational purpose or coalition agenda, positions or actions that contradict fundamental Catholic moral and social teaching.” CAT’s membership and presence on the steering committee of Fair Shot for All is a CLEAR violation of this grant guideline.
- In Catholic moral theology, there are nine ways by which an individual participates in the sin of another. As a member of Fair Shot for All’s steering committee, CAT is guilty of nearly all of them.
Either way, it is a grave scandal that CAT is receiving funding from the Catholic Church, based upon this issue alone. But this isn’t all.
CAT is on the Board of Directors of another Pro-Abortion, Pro-LGBT organization
The Community Alliance of tenants is represented on the Board of Directors of an organization called the Momentum Alliance.
On April 20, 2017, Multnomah County, Oregon passed a resolution to support insurance coverage for abortions due to the intervention of several groups, including the Momentum Alliance. 
On October 3 of this year, CAT’s board membership in the Momentum Alliance included this Reproductive Justice Youth Advocates program, which discussed “gender, sexuality, and sexual health.”
In March of 2017, CAT’s board membership in the Momentum Alliance included the endorsement of the Reproductive Health Equity Act, which forces insurance companies to cover birth control and abortion.
There’s a lot more about the Momentum Alliance, but this suffices to serve as a clear example of just how rotten this organization is. And again, this is something intimately participated in by the Community Alliance of tenants, a grantee of the US Bishops.
CAT Directly Promotes Homosexuality and Transgenderism
On June 16 of this year, an Instagram photo showed a booth representing the Community Alliance of Tenants at the Trans Rally in Portland.
On October 11 of this year, CAT held an event directed at attacking the conscience rights of land lords who would refuse to provide housing to same-sex couples. The event was titled, “Housing: Know your rights! LGBTQ plus Community Info Night.”
The event, which was co-sponsored by the Pride Foundation, Fair Housing Council of Oregon, Community Alliance of Tenants, Q Center, and Greater Portland Trans Unity!, was held at the Q Center itself.
According to the details of the event, spotlighted under CAT’s profile:
LGBTQ+ Spotlight
In November 2017, CAT’s Tenant Leadership Council (TLC) conducted a culturally specific focus group for the LGBTQ+ community. Read the results: Report //tiny.cc/LGBTQ-CAT-Report and Flyer //tiny.cc/LGBTQ-CAT
//oregoncat.org/
The flyer, created by CAT, explicitly supports and promotes open homosexuality. The front of the flyer sports the rainbow flag, while the back states that CAT is leading the “Housing Justice Movement in the LGBTQ Community.” Also on the back of the flyer are several symbols of the homosexual movement, such as the rainbow flag, the transgender flag (pink, blue and white), and a sign that reads, “Love is Love.”
CAT’s Staff is full of LGBTQ and Reproductive “Rights” Activists
The LGBTQ activism on the part of CAT makes a lot of sense when you consider who they have on staff. CAT’s Community Engagement Coordinator is a woman named Jensi Albright. Albright has also served on CAT’s Board of Directors.
What CAT’s bio of Jensi Albright doesn’t say is that Albright is a homosexual activist that fought to change the marriage laws and obtained a same-sex “marriage” in 2012. The Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN) did a story on Albright and indicated that she “battled for a change to DOMA, for immigration reform including gay binational couples, and for marriage equality.” In 2012, after her “marriage,” she participated in a documentary about her fight to end the Defense of Marriage Act. In 2015, she and her partner received the “Portland Latino Gay Pride” award for homosexual activism.
But Jensi Albright isn’t the only homosexual activist listed on CAT’s staff roster.
Apparently preferring the personal pronoun “they,” Asher is identified on the roster as having a background in “queer and trans justice.”
CAT’s Tenant Education Coordinator is Daisy Quiñonez. Quiñonez, as we indicated earlier, represents CAT on the Board of the Momentum Alliance, an organization engaged in homosexual and reproductive “rights” activism.
Her bio indicates that she has a “background in grassroots and electoral organizing,” but what it doesn’t mention is that this includes working for Planned Parenthood. According to her Linkedin profile, prior to working for CAT, Daisy was a “Legislative Fellow” for Planned Parenthood. While her profile apparently hasn’t been updated since she was a program organizer at the Bus Project, we have been able to confirm that this is indeed the same person since the City of Portland identified Quiñonez as having worked at the Bus Project, and is currently working for CAT.
On July 6, 2017, the Momentum Alliance posted a brief Q&A with Quiñonez, wherein she identifies “reproductive justice” as one of the most important “social justice issues” to her.
Conclusion
Once again, the USCCB has been caught giving a pile of Catholic money to the enemies of Christ. And worse than that, the local CCHD has publicly honored this organization for its work. But as has been proved and catalogued, the Community Alliance of Tenants is staffed by homosexual and abortion activists, CAT has been directly involved in the promotion of homosexuality, and CAT is intimately involved with several coalitions that are acting directly against the moral teachings of the Catholic Church.
It is appalling that such an organization would receive accolades and finances from the Catholic Church, but this just goes to show that once again, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development is either failing to apply the “rigorous screening process” it claims to hold for CCHD grantees, or it is turning a willful, blind eye to egregious violations of CCHD grant guidelines and Catholic moral teaching. Either way, the CCHD has proven time and again that this issue will not be resolved, no matter how many bureaucratic layers it adds to its application process. So, it is time to end the program entirely. It is time to close down the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
Contact the CCHD’s office and demand to know why this group was funded, and how it intends to rectify the matter.
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“US Catholic Bishops Give $280,000 to LGBT and Abortion Activists” – equally repugnant, the sellout of the Church in China.
When a staggering number of the US bishops are either sodomites themselves, or sympathizers, we should not be surprised.
These Bishops CANNOT be trusted.
I am outraged too, but if you are not a Roman Catholic yourself, and are not in communion with the church, I don’t see how your comments of condemnation are relevant. Go be pleased in your own separate “perfect” church with the rest of your spotless “perfect” people.
There is objective Truth, and whether a Roman Catholic or not, recognition of objective Truth is a good thing. The USCCB would have us contribute to organizations that promote mortal sin: that in itself places them in objective mortal sin. Recognition of this by non-Catholics is a good and positive thing.
Don’t be absurd! Only Catholics can condemn the sinful behavior if the Catholic Church? And who are you to condemn another church then??? Wrong is wrong and you think another Christian no matter from what church shouldn’t condemn this behavior?? What are tou talking about????
I am nauseated, heartbroken and enraged all at the same time.
There’s flack from some I know, for those of us who report on bad news. Michael Hichborn, your article was a catalyst for a post of my own. I linked to yours. Although my audience is small, I want to share Truth… http://catholiclifeinourtimes.com/sharing-bad-news-good-soul/
And did you notice that another board member at Momentum Alliance represented St. Mary’s Academy, a “Catholic” high school in Portland? I’m pretty sure they aren’t representing the Catholic teachings.
And to think all this money could have funded catholic education to needy families and here they are pouring it into this ????
I tried but got no support to get a Catholic school going in our area to help my two young kids and other Catholic kids to flourish in their Catholic faith. Kids are exposed to corrupting influences in secular schools… Our Catholic diocese apparently had no money to create a Catholic school but really the problem was that there was no political will… You don’t need millions of dollars. And if you put your kids into Christian schools, they may teach that it’s wrong to pray to St. Mary, etc. so Catholic kids can get subtle or really overt and forceful anti-Cathoilic messages that can be quite confusing and unsettling to them… Hopefully the Battle of Lepanto can help all people to be won over to the Catholic Faith that is God’s Gift to us to help us all to prevail over sin! Praise God for the Lepanto Institute!
Ever since this story broke out, I have been searching to find what other catholic charities that help fund contraception, abortions and the LGBT movement.
The faithful need to know so we can stop supporting these charities.
The Battle of Lepanto shows us that no matter how bad things look we will WIN ETERNALLY if we stay in Communion with God through the devout practice of our Holy Catholic Faith, receiving our Lord in the Holy Eucharist, spiritually if not able to do so Sacramentally because Jesus Knows our hearts and our Guardian Angels are helping us! We need to remind everyone in the world about the Facts of the Battle of Lepanto that although the Catholic fleet was massively outnumbered by the Muslim Turks’ fleet that because every Catholic ship had onboard a Catholic Priest and all crew and soldiers received the Catholic Sacraments including Confession (Reconciliation with God), participated in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and received JESUS IN THE HOLY EUCHARIST, THE BREAD OF LIFE, THE BREAD OF ETERNAL LIFE, and said prayers such as the ROSARY that provide a PLENARY INDULGENCE (A FULL TANK OF GRACE), they were thereby all in a PERFECT STATE OF GRACE WITH GOD and hence were unbeatable and were easily able to annihilate the attacking forces and WIN! People need to be reminded of the FACT that sin (selfishness) leads to suffering and death and unless it is repented and atoned for and the sinner is reconciled with God, sin gives birth to death, potentially eternal death… It is very easy to be an ETERNAL WINNER as opposed to an Eternal Loser – but not if you ignore GOD’S GIFT TO ALL PEOPLE OF THE CATHOLIC SACRAMENTS (“CATHOLIC” MEANS “UNIVERSAL” OR “FOR EVERYONE”), the HOLY ROSARY, the example and HELP OF GOD through the intercession of the SAINTS, and especially in this era of moral confusion and the threat of war, THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO AND ALL THAT IT HAS TO TEACH US AND HELP US TO CONVERT HEARTS AND SAVE ALL! SO WE MUST ALL TAKE HEART AND KNOW THAT WITH THE LOVE, GRACE AND MERCY OF GOD, WE WILL WIN THE BATTLE FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD!!!
The USCCB and the Bishops in general must be made to live frugally. There is a biblical mandate to NOT cast pearls before swine. Donating to the USCCB and it’s organizations or charities is casting pearls before swine and enabling them. Ask your fellow Catholics where you can safely donate your money to worthy causes.
link explains that they give to Community Alliance of Tenants (CAT). This is a group that helps the poor find housing. They are linked with libtard groups, but their purpose is noble. We need to have our OWN low income housing projects. Here in Utah, two priests started, Utah Low Income housing project called, Utah Non-Profit Housing Corporation. But the Church is no longer affliated with them due to a huge loss of revenue from tithing, which parishioners withhold due to disgust and for the lawsuits against pedophiles and other sexual offenders in the Church.
I am sorry that Lepanto Institute is no longer a reliable source of information.
The headline, in a way, is Fake News.
The individuals running Community Alliance of Tenants are indeed LGBT and Abortion activists. The Community Engagement Coordinator is a same-sex “married” LGBT activist. The Community Organizer is an LGBT activist. Their Tenant Education Coordinator is a “legislative fellow” for Planned Parenthood. The money that came from the USCCB paid these individuals, so the headline is 100% accurate.
But CAT, as an organization, is directly involved in the promotion of abortion and homosexuality.
CAT boothed a table at the Trans rally in Portland. CAT held an LGBTQ plus Community Info night. CAT is a member of and on the steering committee (meaning the governing body) of an organization that pushes LGBT activism and took an active position AGAINST a legislative attempt to ban public funding of abortion.
These are not tentative connections, but direct involvement in the Culture of Death by the organization itself.
If there was any good that came from this collection it’s to bad supporting that good is not going to happen because of abuse of funds. I stopped donating to CCHD after learning who developed the fund while watching the EWTN program A WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING.
Thanks Michael Hitchborn for the research and for mother Mariam mentioning Lepanto Institute on her radio show Heart to Heart on catholic radio.
We know that there will be two Catholic churches in the very near future (I believe its now), the ‘APE’ church and the ‘True Roman Catholic church,’ the Remnant. Many ill-informed Catholics or watered down Catholics don’t know what’s going on or simply refuse to believe it. Saints, mystics, Christ and His blessed mother have been warning us of what was coming…..