100 world leaders gathered in a room

Sounds like the start of a joke, right?

The way some see it, it is.

Caritas Internationalis– the international consortium of Catholic relief agencies– and CIDSE (an alliance of Catholic development agencies) are denouncing the Cophenhagen climate as “a weak and morally reprehensible deal which will spell disaster for millions of the world’s poorest people.”

“It is inconceivable that with more than 100 world leaders gathered together in one room to make a pact to solve a global problem, they have failed to commit themselves to adequate and binding obligations” said CIDSE Secretary General Bernd Nilles.

Shameful, says Caritas.