Development & Peace: Fundamentally UnCatholic

Socon or Bust has been online for over five years now.  Three of those years have been substantially devoted to exposing the massive social justice fraud in the Catholic Church in Canada.  It’s therefore fitting that the final post here at Socon or Bust should offer a few closing remarks on Development & Peace.

As at the end of 2011, Socon or Bust and LifeSiteNews have uncovered 53 D&P sponsored groups which hold beliefs which are fundamentally opposed to Catholic teaching in one or more of the following areas: abortion, infanticide, contraception, homosexuality, Marxism, feminism, and even overt anti-Catholicism.  (A full diary of our posts on the abortion saga involving D&P can be permanently accessed by visiting our archived blog.)

After being elected as CCCB president, Archbishop Richard Smith asked us to “trust the bishops“, while seemingly being unaware that he was being hosted by feminists during his recent trip to Haiti.  This 53rd group, uncovered by a Socon or Bust reader, was also a beneficiary of George Soros’s largesse.  George gave APROSIFA a $9500 grant to translate to Creole the book “Where there is no doctor“ which has a chapter on how to self-abort.  And as if this was not bad enough – shocker of all shockers! – if you meander over to D&P’s website and access their Haiti page, you won’t see any groups identified.

It’s all part of their major problem with transparency which continues to this day, despite the so-called “reforms”.

The problem with Development & Peace is part of a larger problem with the Catholic Church’s global social justice industry which, in turn, is part of bigger problem of corruption in almost every area of Church life.  As an aside, this is also especially true about the so-called Catholic media who prefer to secure the good graces of weak and compromised bishops rather than to report the truth, so authentic renewal can genuinely begin.  The lapdog ”yes men” press are no true friends of the Church.  I once told a homosexualist who was berating me for my alleged hatred of homosexuals:  “Does love always say yes?”  She never responded.

The imbroglio concerning Development & Peace is part of a larger problem with the Catholic Church’s identity.  Instead of doing authentic social justice, we farmed it out to the secular world.  And the tragic results are before us today.  It’s time for all Catholics to hit the reset button, relying less on the world to do charitable work and more on ourselves.

I want to thank all of you who have offered us support here at Socon or Bust throughout the years.  Your words of support and encouragement have edified and sustained Steve and I. 

For Life and Family,

John Pacheco
pacheco377@gmail.com

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Sayonara Socon

As I mentioned earlier during the month, Socon or Bust is folding up the tent.

I’d like to offer a few clarifications, thoughts, and details about our imminent departure from the blogosphere.

The cost of day care

Tasha Kheiriddin of the National Post wrote a great article on the cost of day care for your child. Most people advocating for day care (or “Early Childhood Education”, as they call it) cite studies claiming that kids in day care learn more skills that will eventually be building blocks in their future jobs. This may in fact be true, because day care often has teaching sessions, almost like kindergarten, where kids are taught certain things. But even those benefits are being challenged by new research, as Ms. Kheiriddin explains. Moreover, the day care advocates ignore what is sacrificed in the process.

Violence Against Women – Fact from Fiction

One of first-wave feminism’s great achievements in the 1970s was to end the denial surrounding wife abuse in even the “best” homes. Resources for abused women proliferated. Traditional social, judicial and political attitudes toward violence against women were cleansed and reconstructed along feminist-designed lines.

But then a funny thing happened. The closet from which abuse victims were emerging had, everyone assumed, been filled with women. But honest researchers were surprised by the results of their own objective inquiries. They were all finding, independently, that intimate partner violence (IPV) is mostly bidirectional.

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Every major survey has borne out this truth. In fact, the most reliable, like Canada’s 1999 General Social Survey, found not only that most male and female violence is reciprocal, but also that the younger the sample, the more violent the women relative to men. A meta-analysis of mor than 80 large-scale surveys notes a widening, and concerning, spread – less male and more female IPV – in the dating cohort.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has just published its National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey to great fanfare. The survey’s central finding is – yep – that men and women inflict and suffer equal rates of IPV, with 6.5% of men and 6.3% of women experiencing partner aggression in the past year. More men (18%) suffer psychological aggression (humiliation, threats of violence, controllingness) than women (14%). Feminists often define IPV as a “pattern of power and control,” but the survey finds that men were 50% more likely to have experienced coercive control than women (15.2% vs 10.7%).

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(Source)

The whole feminist power-play about “domestic violence” is just part of the whole attack on masculinity and paternity in general.  I am in no way dismissing true spousal and women abuse which has likely increased in this culture of death.  But one must be able to distinguish and delineate between the facts and the politics of the question.  Most of the “women’s violence” mantra is just dressed-up hatred of men, pure and simple.

If you watch commercials today on TV, the men are represented as being doofers and the woman is super-smart who can do it all. This is a consistent theme in commercials which my wife pointed out to me one day.

Many of D&P’s partners have this ”violence against women” mantra as one of their central objectives, which only goes to show that it’s not just the “biggies” like abortion and contraception that are the problem with the social justice industry in the Catholic Church.  It’s many, many other areas of concern which attack the traditional family.

Skank Culture Has Forsaken Women’s Dignity

As I said, pretty inspires men’s nobler instincts to protect and defend.  Pretty is cherished. Hotness, on the other hand, is a commodity.  Its value is temporary and must be used.  It is a consumable.

CCCB buries head in Haitian sand as D&P continues to support pro-abort group

One of the first D&P pro-abort partners which Socon or Bust outed in our investigation three years ago was a group called Fanm Deside.  Here’s what we found out:

• Fanm Deside (Website: www.fanmdeside.org)
  Listed as a Partner of CCODP’s 2006-2011 Latin America Program, page 127

Fanm Deside has a pro-abortion stance. In their PowerPoint presentation located here at Slide 16, the presentation mentions having organized a day of reflection on the decriminalisation of abortion. (Source)

Soon thereafter, LifeSite News published their own report on this group (along with another group). You can read that report here.

A few posts ago, we highlighted how the CCCB was being hosted by two other anti-life groups in Haiti. (There’s now 4 D&P anti-life groups in Haiti that we know of.)

And just when you thought our bishops could not be more clueless or flippant to concerns raised by the pro-life community, fear not, my dear friends!  The CCCB’s clueless campaign continues!  Yes indeedy.

Poverty Trap

Funny how Development and Peace claims to be fighting poverty, but some of their actions just ingrain poverty.

Take for instance their efforts on agriculture.  As you can see on this page, D&P empahsizes the importance of ”small-scale farmers”. In the Global South, small-scale farming barely provides a subsistence income with very little up-side for improving your lifestyle.

Merry Christmas from Socon or Bust

Socon or Bust  wishes all of its readers a very Merry Christ-mass (it is, after all, a Catholic feast day ) and a holy and prosperous New Year.

We remind our readers to do the Catholic and anti-eco-worship thing:  desist from erecting artificial Christmas trees if at all possible.

Instead, cut one of these things down from Mother earth and put it up in your living room to celebrate Christ’s victory over paganism and false religion.

Who knows? Your days of being able to do it could be short, if David Suzuki and the eco-grinches have anything to do with it.

Merry Christmas!

The Child Who was Never Born

Homeopathy a scam of the devil

I pointed out a few posts ago, how Love One Another Magazine was one of the best Catholic magazines going.

I greatly encourage all Socon or Bust  readers to take out a subscription.  It’s the medicine that will help you keep your faith in a Church full of dissent and virtual apostasy.

One of the articles which I read over a year ago has been posted online. My eldest daughter was getting treatment with homeopathy for a skin condition.

We stopped after reading this article.

Don’t get sucker-punched by the Devil under the guise of authentic medicine.  And don’t be afraid to call out the devil for his incantations.