The following information was sent to Fr. Mark Hyde on Monday, May 9, explaining that we wrote him "in order to provide [him] the opportunity to address and correct the situation before we publish the information we have obtained. Our scheduled publishing date and time is noon on Wednesday, however we are open to suspending publication given a timely and reasonable response." The Lepanto Institute did not receive a response from Fr. Hyde.Dear Fr. Hyde, As you may recall, last fall, … [Read more...]
Salesian Missions, CRS Defend Evil Program
Salesian Missions has called our reports a “malicious attack” that contain “absurd information.” One would not see from reading this statement that we tried to reach out to them six days before releasing our report to try to start a conversation about our findings before going public; and that all of the information presented – which we agree is absurd, or worse – was taken from their own and their partners’ documents. In fact, the Life Choices documents in question were removed from the … [Read more...]
Salesian Missions Distributed Over 100,000 Condoms
Update: – A letter from the Human Sciences Research Council claims that the reported distribution of condoms in their report was the result of a data entry error. While we are hopeful that this claim is true, we reiterate that this could have been discussed prior to publication of our report had the Salesian Missions bothered to respond to our requested correspondence. A week ago, the Lepanto Institute published a report showing that the Salesian Missions received federal funding for the … [Read more...]
Salesian Missions Promote Masturbation, Contraception
The Lepanto Institute was recently asked by a supporter if the Salesian Missions was a "safe charity" to donate to. Not knowing the answer, Lepanto Institute conducted an investigation of the Salesian Missions' program called "Life Choices," and discovered that this program is quite similar to just about anything Planned Parenthood would publish. The program recommends masturbation, encourages condom use, employs emotionally dangerous "role-play" exercises, promotes contraception (including … [Read more...]
