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I don’t mean to mix religions, but it’s about time someone has the chutzpah to stand up and say when something is rotten::

BALTIMORE — A community grantmaking arm of the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops has cut off all funding for a group embroiled in controversy over claims of voter registration fraud and embezzlement, church leaders said Tuesday.

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development, which supports anti-poverty and social justice programs nationwide, will no longer make grants to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, said Auxiliary Bishop Robert Morin of New Orleans.

The decision was made following claims that nearly $1 million had been embezzled from ACORN by the brother of its founder.

According to the article they contribute about one million dollars a year to ACORN but they’ve determined that it wasn’t their money that was stolen:

Morin, who helps oversee the Catholic program, said forensic accountants hired by the church found that “our funds were not involved with those that had been embezzled.”

They have such a thing as forensic accountants? Who knew? Anyway, they’ve flatly stated that any further business with ACORN is out of the question:

“There will be no funding relationships with ACORN groups in the future,” Morin said, during the fall meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Of course, their peasley million bucks is a drop in the bucket to ACORN, but the point is that someone is calling thier shady ways for what they are and are publicly saying thay’ll have no part of it. Good for them.

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