CACG - A Trojan Horse Full of Far-left Democrats

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) was founded in 2005. Alexia Kelly is the director and claims to be the principle founder, but many individuals have worked to build this organization. The CACG and other similar political organizations, such as Catholics United, Pax Christi, Network, Center of Concern, Just Faith, and Call to Action work closely together and share leadership. Their direction and affiliations however extend well beyond these Catholic-focused groups to Democrat party operatives and funding sources, Unions, Catholic leadership universities and charity organizations, national politicians, and now the White House. . .

The Catholic League has recently revealed that the George Soros-funded Open Society Institute gave $100,000 to CACG in 2005. CACG is also affiliated with the John Podesta’s Center for American Progress. CAP works closely with CACG and has provided funds to Catholics United and Faith and Public Life. CAP received 3.5 million from the Soros organization in 2005. William Donohue, of the Catholic League has stated that George Soros supports CACG for the same reason he supports the pro-choice group, Catholics for Choice. They help to “make abortion rights a respectable Catholic position.”

The CACG is run and advised by powerful Democrats. Their board, staff, and advisory committee include top fundraisers and strategists as well as major labor union representation. Elizabeth Bagley and Broderick Johnson are quite valuable to the national campaigns. Sister Patricia Daly is connected to a very large religious philanthropy. Catholic Church Leadership from the Sisters of Mercy, the Jesuit order, the government-funded Catholic Charities and Catholic Relief Services are also represented at CACG. Catholic academia has a strong presence.

The CACG has powerful representation from the AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Teachers, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The CACG, SEIU, ACORN, and the Obama campaign are all united in common objectives such as the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). In December 2008 members of the SEIU, which donated millions of dollars to the Obama campaign, demonstrated in support of the FOCA, a virulent anti-Catholic anti-life piece of legislation. At that time the SEIU filed an amicus brief with the Ohio Supreme Court defending ACORN against voter fraud prosecution. SEIU is not affiliated in any formal way with ACORN, nevertheless they provided valuable legal reinforcement. Interestingly, The SEIU and ACORN were both started by Wade Roethke, founder of 60’s radical group SDS. SDS was the parent group of the murderous Weather Underground. Bill Ayers, Chicago-based political mentor for Barack Obama, was a well-known member of the Weather Underground and SDS. Today Roethke’s ACORN is funded partly through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. The CCHD is funded by the Church and represented on the staff at the Catholic Alliance for the Common Good.

The bottom line – CACG maintains a Catholic veneer because this subterfuge helps it to achieve its objectives. In reality though, CAGC is nothing more than a Trojan horse with a Catholic veneer and a body full of left wing political activists and dissenting Catholics. Their sole purpose is to advance a political agenda that is inimical to the average man-in-the-street and diametrically opposed to many of the Church’s most fundamental moral teachings.

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