Bishop accuses OAS of pro-abortion, pro-gay ‘ideological colonization’ Austen Ivereigh June 11, 2016 SENIOR CRUX CONTRIBUTOR Bishop Víctor Masalles, auxiliary bishop of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. (Credit: Diario Libre.) As the Organization of American States opens its annual assembly in the Dominican Republic on Monday, Bishop Víctor Masalles, auxiliary bishop of Santo Domingo, is accusing it of "ideological colonization" in pushing an agenda in favor of abortion, gay marriage and "gender theory." SANTO DOMINGO - The Organization of American States (OAS), which begins its annual assembly in the Dominican Republic on Monday, has been criticized by a bishop there as seeking to impose a foreign agenda on the Caribbean island nation. Bishop Víctor Masalles, auxiliary bishop of Santo Domingo, says the OAS’s cultural agenda promoting gay marriage and abortion are in direct contravention of the Christian humanist traditions of Latin America, and in violation of the OAS’s own charter. Created in 1948, OAS is the main political, juridical, and social governmental forum for the 35 independent states of the Americas. But critics say that since the return of democracy in Latin America in the 1990s, the OAS leadership has been captured by the cultural left, promoting an agenda that undermines Latin America’s Catholic tradition. The OAS’s secretary general since last year, Luis Almagro, is a former minister in Uruguay’s leftist government under President José Mugica. Since the 80-year-old Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, disappeared from public life last year, suffering from a variety of illnesses, Masalles has become the leading public voice of the Dominican Church, speaking out, for example, against the US ambassador in Santo Domingo for his gay activism. Click here for the rest of the article: https://cruxnow.com/interviews/2016...ro-abortion-pro-gay-ideological-colonization/