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A woman receives flowers and applause at a podium with "GBIO" signage in a conference room. Several people are standing and clapping, including one person raising their hand. The setting features red carpeting and wooden paneling."

Agents of Death: The Alinskyian Effort to Manage Your Life’s End

Change agents hope to transform end-of-life care with “new” values   Journalist Ellen Goodman was a 2015 National Summit on Advanced Illness Care keynote speaker for The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC).  She addressed the room of professionals in their personal capacity, “as mothers, as fathers, as sons, as daughters, as well as change agents…

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Four people holding signs protesting against Mt Olive Pickles and sweatshop labor. Signs read "Justice for farmworkers," "Boycott Mt Olive Pickles," and "We are called to stand with poor workers." Bright orange signs, casual clothing."

Using Social Justice Alliances to Subvert Catholic Principles

Frontal assault is not the best way to bring down a religious establishment.  That only creates martyrs and underground resistance.  Minimizing religious values, however, while elevating political ones is much more effective and, when the religious establishment cooperates with the process, it withers like a vestigial organ. Two examples – one from a predominantly Catholic and one…

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A colorful mural featuring a child riding a blue bicycle amidst flames, with graffiti text saying "Flags are awesome!" and various other whimsical drawings. The child is dressed in a white sweater, blue jeans, and sneakers."

CCHD 2014-2015 …with a sobering look at a New Mexico PICO grantee, CAFÉ

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), an annual collection that is touted to “help the poor” but has actually been a steady source of revenue for Alinskyian organizing and other progressive, political activity, recently released its 2014-2015 grant list. It’s a doozy. As has been the trend since scandal forced the collection to withhold…

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A black and white sketch of a man in historical attire conducting an orchestra with a child holding a sign that says "DUMB". The text reads: "COMMON CORE ASSESSMENTS" in bold, yellow letters. The man appears to be Abraham Lincoln."

Getting Testy about Testing

You know, it wasn’t that long ago that Johnny – and Juan – could read. They could recite the multiplication table, too, and could quickly make change, tally a ledger, and calculate simple percentages. Their teachers didn’t teach to a test; they taught basic, academic content. Johnny’s score on standardized tests – and Juan’s –measured…

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A close-up of a skull with glasses and text listing seven things that the Lord hates, including haughty eyes, lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. The text is from a Catholic perspective, emphasizing moral teachings.  Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh His soul detesteth: 1) Haughty eyes, 2) a lying tongue, 3) hands that shed innocent blood, 4) A heart that deviseth wicked plots, 5) feet that are swift to run into mischief, 6) A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and 7) him that soweth discord among brethren.

Expanding the System: “Local” Alinskyian organizing acclimatizes the locals to accept the unacceptable

What happens when grassroots political activism organized with Alinsky’s luciferian tactics decide to give you health care? It looks a lot like many of the social justice movements that operate on CCHD cash, with about the same concern for Catholic social teaching that any other hell-born and inspired movement could have… See who has been organizing to give you health care and how they work within your parish.

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Cover of "Occupy Unmasked" book with a red and black design, featuring a shadowy figure. Text includes "What are the real forces behind the Occupy movements?" and mentions Vatican-related themes. Includes an illustration of St. Peter's Basilica in the top right corner."

Film Review: Occupy Unmasked – Looking at the organized roots of “Occupy Wall Street”

Ever wonder what happens to the cash that the CCHD spent into alinsky-type Marxist groups? One good theory is presented in a documentary on the so-called occupy movement. Stephanie Block reports on whether this film documentary is worth watching and what it reveals.

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The Underground Call to Action

Forum Focus: Winter 1999 (Vol. XII, No. 1) Stephanie Block If internal heresy were likened to a disease, how might one image its progressive assault against the Body of Christ? Its errors embed themselves within the members of diocesan staff and in parish leadership, from where they spread through polluted catechesis, workshops, and homilies. The…

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