Charities

The other day, I was speaking with my brother about charities, and which charities Catholics can give money to in good conscience.

Last week in England was the annual Red Nose Day; it is basically a big nation-wide event where they try to collect money for charities. I'm sure that the people running it want to do their best to 'help out those in need' and I have no doubt that some of the money is spent providing shelters for the homeless, building wells in poor African villages and other good stuff like that....but some of their other ideas of 'helping' may not necessarily be my idea of helping....funding campaigns for contraceptives in Africa, abortion provision in Asia...
In fact, in one of my moments of boredom last week I was watching a video on the BBC News website about the Red Nose Day campaign, and as well as a scenes of small starving African children, they also had footage of an African man teaching his village how to use a condom.
Hmm...

Not sure I want to give money to fund morally abhorrent behaviour.

But the problem is that lots of charities put their money in things that I consider morally wrong; like Cancer Research UK fund embryo research, and even Oxfam supports abortion clinics world-wide.

Here is a good document from the Pro-Life organisation 'Society For the Protection of the Unborn Child' (SPUC) which lists hundreds of charities and their official position on abortion, euthanasia and embryo-research etc.
Well worth looking at.

Anyway, there are lots of decent charities you can donate money to...pro-life organisations, monestaries, convents, hospices, missionary orders, Catholic-specific charities...or PETER'S PENCE!

It is the Pope's official charity!! All the money given to Peter's Pence gets given out to charitable causes chosen personally by Pope Benedict! How cool is that?! I'd trust the Pope to use my money for the good of man-kind!


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