text: They'r involved plenty in politics, and your Sunday first collection donations pay for it. They lobby for hundreds of millions of federal funds per year, and will not disclose the hundreds of "Catholic" agencies in hundreds of dioceses that receive it. The exact amounts are secret as well. 
  
  You'd have better luck asking your elected representatives to tell you than your bishop, who's got "golden handcuffs" – since the scandals, Says Bp. Kicanas, voluntary donations have tanked, so bishops have turned to the taxpayer's *involuntary* funding. 
  
  They like the Johnson Amendment because it allows them to pretend they're silenced.
  
  Jesse Jackson isn't. Al Sharpton isn't. Televangelists aren't. Only the USCCB!