Mass Uprising

[Humanist_Activist]

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/mass-uprising/Content?oid=12587024

The American Catholic hierarchy is escalating a campaign against 
gay marriage—and progressive Catholic churchgoers are angry. 
Angry enough to leave. Angry enough to organize. Angry enough to stop tithing. How much money from that donation platter is going into the fight against gays and lesbians, anyway?

This article is a little old, about 6 months, but seems interesting in what I see as irreconcilable differences between much of the laity and the hierarchy. What's interesting is how it attempted to break down where the money from the collection plate goes, apparently not to the charity, which isn't surprising.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. There has always been politics in the Catholic church

If they used the Bible to prioritize were the money goes persecuting anyone would be last and helping the most needy would be first .

[trotsky]

2. ...

Progressive Catholic parishioners all over the United States place lots of money on those collection plates every Sunday and, yeah, they're fine with it trickling up from their parish into the archdiocese's coffers. Because the archdiocese does such good work. It's true—they do do good work. But not with the collection-plate money. The good work for human services and social justice is funded mostly out of tax dollars. It's hard to say where all that money from the collection plates goes. But some of it, we know, goes into the anti-gay campaigns.

Which is what some of us have been saying all along, yet got routinely bashed for it.