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Catholic Answers: Scorning Man's Laws, Twisting God's OPPOSITION NOTES AN INVESTIGATIVE SERIES ON THOSE WHO OPPOSE WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Catholic Answers: Scorning Man’s Laws, Twisting God’s INTRODUCTION fter years of engaging in inappropriate electioneering with money raised as a tax- free charity, Catholic Answers has decided to restructure its activities rather than Aawait its fate in an investigation begun by the Internal Revenue Service. Catholic Answers challenged election laws related to 501(c)(3) charities when it published a voter’s guide in 2004 that, in conjunction with accompanying documents, effectively constituted a plea to Catholics to vote Republican and accused Catholics who voted against what it deemed to be the five “non-negotiables” Catholic Answers published a voter’s guide in 2004 that, to be indirectly supporting “evil.” Catholics for a in conjunction with accompanying documents, effectively Free Choice filed a complaint in 2004 with the constituted a plea to Catholics to vote Republican. IRS about the guide and other Catholic Answers activities; an investigation ensued, and Catholic Answers’ leader, ex-attorney Karl Keating, opted not to defend his work but to play a shell game. Complaining of harassment, he simply moved the challenged electoral activity into a new organization called Catholic Answers Action, set up under a different section of the tax code. The legality of the new arrangement is unclear. Although 501(c)(4) groups such as Catholic Answers Action—that is, those incorporated under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code—have more latitude for lobbying and electioneering than 501(c)(3) groups such as Catholic Answers, the former may still not conduct election work as a primary activity. Early indications suggest strongly that that is what Catholic Answers Action is doing. Catholic Answers is based in El Cajon, California, near San Diego. The group’s annual budget was fluctuating within the $3 million–$6.1 million range during the most recent years for which tax returns were available (2002, 2003 and 2004). Its primary activity is CATHOLICS FOR A FREE CHOICE OPPOSITION NOTES • AN INVESTIGATIVE SERIES Key Findings apologetics: the defense of the faith, such submit. The group presents its mission in as Catholic Answers interprets it, against this way: • Catholic Answers challenged election attacks perceived or real. In Catholic Catholic Answers is an apostolate laws related to 501(c)(3) charities Answers’ case, this includes a radical when it published a voter’s guide in dedicated to serving Christ by commitment to the idea that almost 2004 that, in conjunction with bringing the fullness of Catholic truth anything the church hierarchy does is accompanying documents, effectively to the world. We help good Catholics right, and an accompanying willingness constituted a plea to Catholics to vote become better Catholics, bring former to pursue obscure and tortuous Republican and accused Catholics Catholics “home,” and lead non- who voted against what it deemed to arguments to prove it. For example, Catholics into the fullness of the faith. be the five “non-negotiables” to be Catholic Answers’ director of apologetics We explain Catholic truth, equip the indirectly supporting “evil.” and evangelization Jimmy Akin recently faithful to live fully the sacramental • Catholic Answers has restructured its claimed papal spokesman Joaquin life, and assist them in spreading the activities rather than await the Navarro-Valls did not lie but rather used Good News.3 outcome of a federal probe into its a “mental reservation” when he electioneering, which appeared to contradicted himself about the papal Catholic Answers claims to be seeking violate its tax-exempt charity status. 1 view of The Passion of the Christ. to win converts and bring lapsed • The organization’s new structure, which It is not known what Catholic Answers places election activities into a Catholics home, but it puts no stock in Action’s budget will be, or how the new 501(c)(4) social welfare organization the adage that flies are best caught with branch’s existence will affect Catholic called Catholic Answers Action, may honey, not vinegar. To the average run into similar legal problems as did Answers’ finances. Catholic Answers had American whether Catholic or not, its 501(c)(3): A 501(c)(4) group may thirty-six employees as of 2003 and Catholic Answers’ brand of Catholicism 2 not conduct election work as its maintains a three-member board and a will be unappealing in the extreme. primary activity, which is what Catholic roster of about 10 speakers and Answers Action indicates it plans to do. apologists, who charge fees of $1,000 and • The investigation and restructuring more for lectures at conferences and HISTORY response may damage Catholic schools. The organization’s consistent Answers’ financial outlook, since Republican bent comes through not just According to Keating’s way of seeing founder Karl Keating announced the in its voter’s guide but in many other organization’s new branch with an things, Catholic Answers was founded communications, in its donor base and in urgent appeal for funds to cover under siege, and the church is similarly its positions on social issues. The group expenses already being incurred. beset to this day. In 1979, when he was has even received donations from former • Catholic Answers’ support for about 30 years old, he reacted to Republican candidates and contempt speaker of the US House of “Fundamentalist” leafleting of cars in a for Democrats is clear, if sometimes Representatives Tom DeLay. Catholic church parking lot in San presented in a nuanced language The Catholicism promoted by Diego—“the fliers attacked the Eucharist (e.g. using terms like prolife), in its Catholic Answers is ultraorthodox, and were riddled with misinformation”— voter’s guide and many other nostalgic, quasi-separatist, superstitious by in turn leafleting cars in a communications, as well as in its and melodramatically defensive. The “Fundamentalist” church’s lot. From the donor base and positions on issues. organization tries to present its version beginning, he promoted the idea of a • Catholic Answers is committed to an of the church as generic and official—its “clash between Fundamentalists and extreme brand of Catholic apologetics, Web site is located at www.catholic.com, 4 constructing tortuous arguments to Catholics.” for example—but has no direct affiliation excuse the church hierarchy for almost “I guess I’m just contrary,” he told the with the church hierarchy and is any crime or error, past or present. conservative Catholic magazine Sursum frequently at odds with the latter over • The group preaches an ultraorthodox, Corda! in 1996. “When I distributed that quasi-separatist, paranoid and intolerant social issues. Catholic Answers first pamphlet I wanted to get a reaction. brand of Catholicism that is not likely to apologists and speakers are drawn So I rented a post office box and chose win many converts, even though winning overwhelmingly from the ranks of the name Catholic Answers.”5 converts is a stated goal. converts to Catholicism from other, Keating’s fit of parking-lot pique • Catholic Answers leaders have made mostly evangelical Christian, eventually led him to a complete career various bigoted, fearful and regressive denominations; several have described change. Although he continued in the remarks about gays, women, Muslims having been attracted to Catholicism early 1980s to practice civil law full-time, and other groups that are far out of because they saw it as rigidly pure or he became increasingly involved with his touch with mainstream American views. craved an absolute authority to which to Catholic Answers apologetics activity. 2 CATHOLIC ANSWERS: SCORNING MAN’S LAWS, TWISTING GOD’S Believing “that people were interested in ELECTORAL ACTIVITY the question of the fundamentalist attack on the Church,” he wrote 30 articles for Catholic Answers for years has the Wanderer, a highly orthodox Catholic unambiguously indicated to supporters newspaper, that would collectively through its Voter’s Guide for Serious become his book Catholicism and Catholics and other communications— 6 Fundamentalism. starting with the first Catholic Answers The Catholic Answers Newsletter began Newsletters in the late 1980s and publication in 1986. During the same continuing today on the Web and radio— year, Keating engaged in his first debate that they should vote for Republican as a Catholic apologist, squaring off candidates in elections. The group uses against ex-Catholic friar Bart Brewer, code words to refer to Republicans and who had been a Discalced Carmelite. Democrats, and it lays out positions it Keating has claimed that he argued deems correct and invites readers to brilliantly and defeated the impolite and compare candidates’ platforms with those long-winded Brewer and that the positions. Such activity is off-limits for overwhelmingly “fundamentalist” 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charities, of which audience of 350 embraced Keating. “I Catholic Answers is one. had a hundred or more crammed around The organization had to change its me” offering congratulations and structure in 2006 as a result of its apologizing for Brewer’s “screed,” inappropriate electoral activity and a Keating told Sursum Corda!. “I could see resulting IRS investigation into whether across the room at the far end my it was violating its 501(c)(3) status. A 7 opponent was standing all by himself.” complaint from Catholics for a Free In 1988, Keating published Catholicism Choice to the IRS was at the origin of and Fundamentalism and left the practice Catholic Answers’ decision to start a new of law to “turn Catholic Answers into a offshoot, called Catholic Answers Action 8 full-time apostolate.” Two years later, the and incorporated as a 501(c)(4) social magazine This Rock replaced the less welfare organization. “We didn’t have 9 ambitious newsletter. The magazine has much choice,” Keating acknowledged in become the major vehicle for his writing.
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