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Meeting set over money for Komen race Wednesday, Mar 5, 2008 Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - A spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock said Tuesday diocese officials would meet this week with officials with Susan G. Komen for the Cure to discuss the organization's fundraising practices. Last month the diocese asked parishes and Catholic schools to stop supporting the nonprofit's fundraising activities because some of the money may go to Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the United States. Officials with Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which holds two races in the state every year to raise money for breast cancer research, denied the assertion, saying no Arkansas Planned Parenthood clinics get local or national grants. Dennis Lee, chancellor for administrative affairs with the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock, declined Tuesday to say when the meeting would be held or exactly what would be discussed. Sherrye McBryde, executive director of Komen for the Cure in Arkansas, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. Monsignor J. Gaston Herbert sent a statement to parishes and schools last month urging them to stop participating in fundraising activities for the Komen organization, Marianne Linane, director of the diocese's Respect Life Office, said last week. McBryde said Komen's Arkansas affiliate, based in Little Rock, has given $1.4 million to Catholic hospitals since the first race in 1992. The Ozark affiliate, which holds its annual race every April in Fayetteville, has given about $350,000 to Catholic hospitals in Northwest Arkansas, she said. |
