...That's the doubt angry conservatives are trying to sow as a way to undermine the CCHD, the principal anti-poverty program of the U.S. bishops conference, and the Roman Catholic Church in America. Some bishops are among the harshest critics, though a group oddly named "Laity for Life" (they apparently find poverty pro-life, at least for others) is leading one charge against the CCHD.It is an ugly political fight led by the likes of Father Richard John Neuhaus at "First Things"--he has claimed that the CCHD dropped "Catholic" from its title, though that's not true--and it derives from the ongoing internal church warfare over secular politics. The opening for conservatives was of course the revelations that the CCHD had funded ACORN, the anti-poverty community organizing group that Republicans sought to tie around Obama's neck, as they tried to disparage "community organizing" and other forms of Christian witness as somehow un-American. God help us if that's the case.God help the poor too--thisanti-CCHD campaign comes just ahead of the CCHD's annual collection this Sunday. Read my take on the controversy over at "America Connects," the web-only portion of America magazine. And don't let false accusations and innuendo be an excuse for not donating.Crosspost with Pontifications.