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A week and a half ago, the Lepanto Institute published an article illustrating the rampant promotion of homosexuality and transgenderism by an organization called the Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN). The US Conference of Catholic Bishops' anti-poverty program, Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is providing a strategic grant of $750,000 to ISN over the next three years. A supporter of the Lepanto Institute contacted the USCCB to ask why the CCHD is providing three-quarters of a million dollars to an organization so steeped in the promotion of grave sin and depravity. Alexandra Carroll, the USCCB's Communications Manager for Social Mission, responded by claiming that ISN had not violated Catholic teaching, and in fact asserted that ISN's pro-LGBT conferences to high school children and young adults confirmed with the Catechism's admonition that "every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided" [Catechism 2358]. Carr

A new report from the U.S. Bishops on the clergy sex abuse scandal highlights the importance of Vatican guidelines barring men with "deep-seated homosexual intendencies" from the priesthood. While the clerical sex abuse has often been described as pedophilia to denote prevalence of prepubescent victims, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops '  2016 annual report , released last week, shows the clear link with the problem of homosexuality in the priesthood. According to the report, 78 percent of the victims are male . And when the age of the victim was determined, only 15 percent were under age 10. The report confirmed as well that this year’s findings were "similar to those reported for year 2015,"   where 81 percent of the victims were male . The 2013 report showed the number of male sex abuse victims  at 80 percent . The numbers support direction from the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI and other high-ranking prelates that the  admission o