This document condemned the following doctrines or tendencies:

This document, penned by the Leiden-educated New Netherland lawyer Adriaen van der Donck, condemned the WIC for mismanagement and demanded full rights as citizens of province of the Netherlands.

However the document also condemned homophobic attacks and violence, stating that "It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action.

The document condemned "relativistic theories" of religious pluralism and described other faiths as "gravely deficient" in the means of salvation.

The document condemns sexism as "a moral and social evil," but follows Vatican dictates denying women ordination to the priesthood and condemning abortion and contraception.

The document committed the organization to "refuse collectively to sanction or support any international war" and condemned the "bogus democracy of capitalist parliamentarism" in favor of establishment of a "genuine workers' democracy."

The document condemns the institution of slavery and accuses slave owners of the sin of being a "man-stealer".

The document in question also specifically condemns the bilateral agreements that a number of EU countries have drawn up with the United States for the purposes of guaranteeing impunity to US soldiers.

The document condemned what it called "the idolatry of the market" as well as a "neo-liberal thinking" that it said looked exclusively at technical solutions to economic problems.