{"id":2734,"date":"2008-03-31T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T18:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/03\/31\/this-needs-to-be-investigated\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T18:50:29","slug":"this-needs-to-be-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/03\/this-needs-to-be-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"This needs to be investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"

A story from The Catholic World Report <\/a>available
\nat Ignatius Insight chronicles a policy paper put out by Catholic
\nRelief Services the charitable arm of the USCCB.  Their
\nposition includes giving information on condom use and the report
\nchronicles tactics used by CRS against those who conscientiously object
\nto doing this.  Germain Grisez has provides a in depth report
\non this that shows how they have taken some older documents from the
\nbishops out of context and that they are probably presenting one thing
\nto the donors and the bishops while their actual practice on this issue
\nhas been along secular lines.<\/p>\n

The authors believes that there needs to
\nbe an investigation of CRS and concludes.<\/p>\n

Since CRS is an agency of the United
\nStates bishops, its officials should act as their agents. If CRS
\nofficials have been pretending to follow the bishops\ufffd policy while
\ndisregarding it, they have betrayed their responsibility and misled the
\nbishops. Any bishop would fire a real estate agent who did that to him.<\/p>\n

As the bishops\ufffd agency, CRS acts in the person of the Church. CRS
\nofficials should be managing a charitable apostolate of the Catholic
\nChurch in the United States. But they have been distributing material
\non which they have prohibited putting the CRS logo. If they are doing
\nwhat they cannot make clear that the Church is doing, how can they be
\nconducting a charitable apostolate in the Church\ufffds name? But if and
\ninsofar as they have not been conducting a charitable apostolate in the
\nChurch\ufffds name, they are betraying the Church herself\ufffdnot only the
\nbishops but all the faithful, and even Jesus himself, the Church\ufffds Head.<\/p>\n

Moreover, it seems that some partners have been pressed to cooperate
\ndespite their conscientious objections. Negative reactions of bishops
\nand churches in other countries seem to be regarded as a problem to be
\ndealt with rather than as expressions of conscientious judgment to be
\nrespected.<\/p>\n

Faithful Catholics who have donated to CRS in recent years for AIDS
\nrelief did so because they expected the program to be carried out in a
\ndistinctively Catholic way. Had they not expected this, they could have
\ndonated to a secular organization fighting AIDS. If CRS officials have
\nused donations otherwise than they have led donors to expect, CRS
\nofficials have misappropriated those funds.<\/p>\n

Finally, even by secular standards, people encouraged to use condoms to
\nprevent the transmission of HIV have been ill-served. Genuine
\ncharitable apostolate in regard to the prevention of HIV transmission
\nhelps save lives but also does something infinitely more important,
\nnamely, offers everyone it reaches help to rise from the life of this
\ncorruption to the life that never dies. However, the opposite was
\noffered if, as it seems, people who should have received loving service
\nin the Church\ufffds name were scandalized in the strict sense by being
\nencouraged to continue engaging\ufffdor worse, as early adolescents, to
\nbegin engaging\ufffdin sinful sexual activity rather than to live chastely.<\/p>\n

What has been going on at CRS must be investigated. The CRS board is
\nultimately responsible for its operations. I urge the board to begin by
\nexamining the items described in this article. The questions those
\nitems raise suggest many further questions.\n<\/p>\n

It does remind me of the line George Weigel recently used where he mentioned “salvation-through-latex approach to AIDS prevention.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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