ACORN gets axed by American bishops

About time:

he Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) has not yet been able to determine if grants made to ACORN were used for fraudulent voter registration, but has cut off all funding to the community organizing group, Bishop Robert Morin announced on Tuesday.

Shortly after addressing the full assembly of U.S. Catholic bishops, Bishop Morin spoke to reporters about what the bishops had learned concerning the use of grants from the CCHD to the group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which is currently under investigation in 13 states for voter fraud.

CCHD originally announced in July 2008 that it was suspending funding to ACORN because of the embezzlement of 1 million dollars by the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke. Today, however, the Bishop Morin went one step further and announced the cancelation of all funding to the group. (CNA)

Okay, fine, it's a good start - but now let's go deeper and root the rest of this sort of stuff out. It's an embarassment to the Church and demotivates hard-working Catholics from supporting other worthy charities when others betray our trust.

Does anyone know of a trustworthy 3rd-party watchdog group that keeps a list of both?

That would be useful.