Catholyc group quietly bites the dust, but leaves legacy of dissent in its wake
Great plains papist Jack Smith at the Catholic Key Blog give us some welcome tidings:
This blog has had at least a dozen posts on the background and doings of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good over the last couple years, but this may be the last (let’s hope). It appears they are out of business. Let’s consider the evidence.
The whole operation has folded up, right down to the phone number being disconnected.
Back in May I wrote a lengthy post detailing the anti-Catholic hatred of the Church espoused by Alfred Rotondaro, the chairman of the governing board of CACG. At the time I demanded that CACG fire Mr. Rotondaro and apologize for the scandal he has caused the Church. Evidently CACG has decided instead to simply pull up stake.
As Jack Smith points out, this is probably because CACG has outlived the use it was originally created for – to deceive Catholics about important issues:
I’ve long asserted that CACG was a campaign organization and not a non-partisan advocate of Catholic Social Teaching as many news outfits have gullibly or willfully maintained. With the president elected and health care passed, it looks, for now, like the campaign is over.
Another reason CACG may have been abandoned is that prominent Catholic bishops had begun identifying it in public as a fake Catholic organization (notably Archbishop Charles Chaput). Fake Catholic organizations are less effective once they can no longer claim to be faithful groups.
Let’s recap a few other important points about CACG:
- Where does their money come from? Liberals like George Soros
- What issues do they focus on? Liberal pet projects
- What do they publish? Misleading information
- Where do they hang out? Democrat conventions and strategy sessions
- What do they do during elections? Make your parish parking lot a political hot zone
- And what happens to them when their work is done? They get jobs from those they helped elect
Well, good riddance, I say!
What can we do to prevent other organizations like CACG which are still in existence from being effective? We can actively resist and call out as insincere those fake Catholics organizations that still exist, such as Catholics United and National Catholic Reporter.
Here’s to a future full of folded Catholyc organizations.
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Well, this is ‘kinda’ true. Actually they are retooling or ‘restarting/rebooting’ to borrow a common phrase going around these days. Likely for the November elections and thanks to a little stipend from George Soros. Everyone knows how much good ole George loves the Catholic faith. What a grand fellow. Someone wrote about all the phoney Catholic groups poping up especially before big elections. Funny how Pelosi, a Catholic I think, wants to investigate just about anyone funding anything right leaning but won’t mention – even under her breath – looking into phoney groups claiming to represent a religion. Isn’t that impersonating in order to deceive. Come to think of it, sounds like something she would support.
So, they are around (maybe with a name change coming soon – that’s all the rage these days isn’t it) and with a boost to their Catholic hating coeffers from the Catholic hater himself.
Howard,
That was awesome!
Jimmy Akin writes columns for the National Catholic REGISTER, not the National Catholic REPORTER.
[...] to destroy the Church, which means Satan is their master? Thank God we have holy Catholic men like Thomas Peters willing to stand a stand against these domestic infidels. Heretic pro-abort Catholics in Alliance [...]
So, are Catholyc groups faithful to the Vatycyn? Do they have a poap?
I too get confused sometimes between the National Catholic Reporter and the National Catholic Register. Could just be an honest mistake. I am expert in honest mistakes. 
they certainly DONT have jimmy akin, not sure where you got that.
Hey now, National Catholic Reporter isn’t all bad! They have John Allen, Jimmy Akin, and…. yeah thats it. :-\
Sounds good, but let’s be vigilant – they might regroup under a new name and try the same tricks.
… many news outfits have gullibly or willfully maintained.
There is another fake one called Catholics for Choice that the media likes too.
Would they give the same credibility if I invented a fake group called “MSNBC Reporters For The Killing Of Baby Seals”
“Great planes papist”? am not sure I can make sense of that, ha. Thanks for your good work, and, yes, good riddance to CICG.
All the $ went to Catholics United because it can lobby politicians. I wonder how many CACGers are now backing that new Catholics for Equality group?
I don’t think Catholics Untied is going anywhere for a while. Actually, the more I see AmP and MSW in debate, the better I feel about the state of the church. As for CACG, I pray for the wellbeing everyone who worked with the organization, though it is good to see it go.
Wow!!
Please don’t confuse this bogus organization with a real “Catholic” group “Catholics for the Common Good”. This organization has been key in the fight against Prop 8 in California along with a number of other issues.
Shouldn’t that be Great Plains papist?
One down, too many more to go.
“Great planes papist Jack Smith at the Catholic Key Blog give us some welcome tidings:”
I’m a fan of the blog, which is why I must point out how very confusing and ungrammatical is this first line. It seems something needs to be italicized to distinguish what you’re referring to, and the subject/verb disagreement (by the way, what is the subject here?) is, I’m sure, an unintentional mistake; otherwise, this sentence simply makes no sense. Could you clean this up and clarify? Many thanks.
Amen! Good riddance to them!
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