Archbishop says he will close Catholic Charities rather than compromise Church teaching

Like its sister organization in California did, Catholic Charities in Colorado is facing the prospect of a state law that would require it to violate Catholic teaching. But, unlike his brother bishops in California, Denver’s Archbishop Charles Chaput has said he will shut down his Church’s charitable organization rather than submit.
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Writing in the Jan. 23 Denver Catholic Register, the archdiocesan newspaper, Archbishop Chaput said the bill “would attack the religious identity of religious nonprofits serving the wider community.” Since Catholic non-profits “play a major role in serving the needy through organizations like Catholic Charities -- in fact, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Denver is the largest non-government human services provider in the Rocky Mountain West -- Catholics will bear a disproportionate part of the damage,” said Chaput.
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Though Colorado Catholic Charities “does not proselytize,” said Chaput, it also “has no interest at all in generic do-goodism; on the contrary, it’s an arm of Catholic social ministry. When it can no longer have the freedom it needs to be ‘Catholic,’ it will end its services.

“This is not idle talk. I am very serious,” said Chaput.

A bishop with a backbone...and because of this, he (and others) will need our fervent prayers. The forces of evil are busily at work to render impotent the teachings of the Church and the natural moral law. State tyranny and its incessant push to legitimize homosexuality must be opposed - something California bishops could learn by this example.