Comments on: CCCB feeling the budget pinch? http://www.socon.ca/cccb-feeling-the-budget-pinch/ Confronting the culture of death Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:35:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Kathie Hogan http://www.socon.ca/cccb-feeling-the-budget-pinch/#comment-45877 Kathie Hogan Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:50:50 +0000 http://www.socon.ca/?p=26549#comment-45877 According to the Catholic Register and Lifesitenews, the fall 2012 D&P campaign was cancelled. It is interesting to note that the CCCB webpage has a notice of the "2012 Fall Campaign on it." What's up with that? MONTREAL, Sept. 19, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an unprecedented move, Canada’s bishops have put a halt to Development and Peace’s fall education campaign after several bishops refused to allow the materials into their parishes. The bishops’ beleaguered aid organization was forced to delay its traditional campaign until mid-October for revisions after complaints that it was too politically-focused, reports the Catholic Register’s Michael Swan. According to the news agency, it is the first time the bishops have directly intervened to stop one of D&P’s education campaigns. CCCB President Archbishop Richard Smith and General Secretary Msgr. Pat Powers contacted D&P with the news Sept. 5th and apparently did so without consulting members of the CCCB’s Standing Committee on Development & Peace. “I kind of feel out in the cold on this,” Bishop Richard Grecco of Charlottetown, one of the committee members, told the Register…. “I was aware that the president of the conference sent out a letter, but there’s been no follow-up with me directly,” said Bishop John Boissonneau, an auxiliary in Toronto and another committee member. _______________________________ 2012 fall campaign of Development and Peace The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP) has launched its 2012 fall campaign, focusing on the importance of international development assistance and foreign aid. The campaign urges Canadian Catholics to become better informed about the issues involved -- by meeting with their members of Parliament, by becoming members of Development and Peace, and by making financial contributions to Development and Peace. The materials for the campaign can be freely downloaded from the CCODP website. According to the Catholic Register and Lifesitenews, the fall 2012 D&P campaign was cancelled. It is interesting to note that the CCCB webpage has a notice of the “2012 Fall Campaign on it.” What’s up with that?

MONTREAL, Sept. 19, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an unprecedented move, Canada’s bishops have put a halt to Development and Peace’s fall education campaign after several bishops refused to allow the materials into their parishes. The bishops’ beleaguered aid organization was forced to delay its traditional campaign until mid-October for revisions after complaints that it was too politically-focused, reports the Catholic Register’s Michael Swan. According to the news agency, it is the first time the bishops have directly intervened to stop one of D&P’s education campaigns. CCCB President Archbishop Richard Smith and General Secretary Msgr. Pat Powers contacted D&P with the news Sept. 5th and apparently did so without consulting members of the CCCB’s Standing Committee on Development & Peace. “I kind of feel out in the cold on this,” Bishop Richard Grecco of Charlottetown, one of the committee members, told the Register…. “I was aware that the president of the conference sent out a letter, but there’s been no follow-up with me directly,” said Bishop John Boissonneau, an auxiliary in Toronto and another committee member.
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2012 fall campaign of Development and Peace

The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP) has launched its 2012 fall campaign, focusing on the importance of international development assistance and foreign aid. The campaign urges Canadian Catholics to become better informed about the issues involved — by meeting with their members of Parliament, by becoming members of Development and Peace, and by making financial contributions to Development and Peace. The materials for the campaign can be freely downloaded from the CCODP website.

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