In case you missed it, yesterday we posted "Boycotting the Poor Box," our editorial for the December 3 issue. Here's how it starts:

In mid-November, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops discussed a report detailing an extensive review and renewal of its domestic-poverty program, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. The reevaluation came in response to complaints that the CCHDs grant recipients were involved in efforts that contradict Catholic teaching.In 1969, the bishops established the Campaign to help the poor develop economic strength and political power, and to educate Catholics about the causes of poverty. Since its founding, the program has disbursed about $290 millionall with the approval of grantees local bishops. Grants are funded by an annual parish collection before Thanksgiving. For years, the Campaign has faced influential critics who questioned where the grant money ended up. Some of them lobbied for an end to the Campaign, and urged Catholics to boycott the annual collection. In recent years, as many as ten bishops have refused to allow the collection to take place in their dioceses.As political and ecclesial polarization has intensified over the past decade, so has criticism of this crucial social-justice program. Last summer, the protest group Reform CCHD Now sent a report to all U.S. dioceses alleging that about fifty of the 2009 grantees had ties to organizations that promote abortion, gay marriage, orstrangelysocialism. In response, CCHD conducted a review that found 6 of the 270 recipients had violated its grant requirements, which stipulate that funding be withheld from organizations that act in conflict with Catholic teaching or engage in partisan political efforts. The Campaign apologized for the errors, withdrew funding from the offending groups, and published a fifteen-page report presenting reforms designed to safeguard the Catholic character of the program.

Of course, some critics won't ever be satisfied. And, given the amount of disinformation floating around, that's not surprising. On last week's The World Over, for example, Raymond Arroyo peddled a few half-truths about CCHD. At the end of the following clip, he offers his own solution to the domestic-poverty crisis. Wait for it:If only you could eat a Catholic education.