Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican's top social justice body, is involved in leading a radically pro-abortion, pro-homosexual and communist organization, according to a new in-depth report by the American Life League (ALL). The World Social Forum (WSF) is an annual international meeting of social justice organizations formed in 2001. It describes itself as a forum for “social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo- liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism.”
However, the organization is also a vehicle for much more than radically leftist economic thinking, according to ALL’s report.
“The World Social Forum is fully committed to the spread of abortion, homosexuality and communism,” Michael Hichborn, the main researcher from ALL behind the report, told LifeSiteNews. “There is simply no way that a Catholic in good conscience can have anything to do with it at all. But for a Catholic agency to actually participate in such an organization’s governance is a gross betrayal of Holy Mother Church!”
Caritas Internationalis is a longstanding member of the International Council of the WSF, its governing body, as indicated by the WSF’s 2013 annual report and website, and Caritas’s website.
“So to be clear,” Hichborn said. “By being on the International Council, Caritas is integral to the operations and actions of WSF. This is a very serious problem.”
Caritas has been actively involved with the World Social Forum since at least 2004, according to Hichborn’s report.
In fact, Caritas boasted about the level of its involvement with WSF in its 2007 annual report, writing, "Motivated by the rallying call that ‘another world is possible,’ the Caritas Confederation has had an increasingly strong presence in the World Social Forum (WSF) process since the first WSF in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001."
Click for Full Text!
Poster Comment:
Yet another organization for traditional Catholics to wonder about.
