The good news in the following story is that whether they spent 27 cents or $27 billion in advocacy efforts, this corrupt, staff-run, leftist organization has no influence on Capitol Hill or anywhere else in Washington. Policy makers know this ACORN-supporting bureaucracy represents at best, a portiont of 300 old men, and certainly not the views of the vast majority of church-going Catholics.
The bad news is that there are many Catholic apostolates that are faithful to the Church's Magisterium, do promote Catholic doctrine and social teaching, are making a difference, live the Beatitudes, are changing the culture and building the Kingdom, and they could do a lot with the millions being wasted by the USCCB.
From Catholic World News
The director of media relations of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has criticized a report by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life that found that the USCCB devoted nearly $27 million to advocacy efforts. But the main researcher for the Pew effort defended the report.