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Article: Catholic campaign for human development: Still entranced by leftist activism, despite growing unrest
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- Human Events
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- November 10, 2000
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What's Needed Is a New Direction,
Some things never change. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development has sought to remake its image with a name change and stricter guidelines for its grants to antipoverty efforts. But despite its pledge to "help people help themselves," the annual program run by the Roman Catholic bishops still favors groups that advocate government programs or blame the free market for their woes.
For the past 11 years, the Capital Research Center has taken a jeweler's eye to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the American Catholic bishops' contribution to the Great Society. After a name change-it was founded in 1970 as the Campaign for Human ...