{"id":10290,"date":"2010-03-15T16:31:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T20:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=10290"},"modified":"2010-03-15T16:31:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T20:31:37","slug":"culture-of-death-stations-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2010\/03\/culture-of-death-stations-of-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture of Death Stations of the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, the\u00a0Catholic Campaign for Human Development<\/a> (CCHD) released\u00a0its own version<\/a> of this ancient devotion.\u00a0<\/a>This self-promotion offers a few scriptural passages relevant to each of the 14 Stations of the Cross (Jesus is Condemned to Death, Jesus Takes up His Cross, Jesus Falls the First Time, etc.), which are followed by commercial commentaries on groups receiving grant money from the CCHD. Even the prayers at the end of each station are tainted with these commercial insertions.<\/p>\n

But the most horrifying aspect of this \u201cprayerful reflection\u201d is that several of the grantees that are given equal attention as Our Lord in His Dolorous Passion are involved in the promotion of abortion and\/or same-sex marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Besides the fact that using the Stations of the Cross in this manner is a bit tasteless, when used to promote groups who dissent against Church teaching it becomes exactly part of that sin that put Jesus on cross in the first place.<\/p>\n

Thankfully there is some good news on this in that they have now been removed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re happy to see the USCCB respond quickly to clean the offensive material from its web site,\u201d said Michael Hichborn, lead researcher on the CCHD for American Life League, an RCN member. \u201cWe hope and pray this is the first step in cleaning up the larger problem of the CCHD funding organizations that support abortion and same-sex marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CCHD\u2019s revision of the Stations of the Cross was the latest incident exposed by the 21-member RCN coalition\u2019s campaign to end CCHD funding for organizations promoting philosophies and\/or activities contrary to Catholic teaching.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What gets me is that obviously CCHD is award they are being closely monitored and yet they still do something as wacky as this.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Reform CCHD Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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