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My friend and colleague (and someone I truly admire) Cliff Kincaid has done excellent research into Pope Francis and his doings. Americans need to take note who has the ear of this Pope:
Top Vatican adviser Jeffrey Sachs says that when Pope Francis visits the United States in September, he will directly challenge the “American idea” of God-given rights embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
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In these extraordinary comments, which constitute a frontal assault on the American idea of freedom and national sovereignty, Sachs has made it clear that he hopes to enlist the Vatican in a global campaign to increase the power of global or foreign-dominated organizations and movements.
Sachs takes aim at the phrase from America’s founding document, the United States Declaration of Independence, that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
These rights sound good, Sachs writes, but they’re not enough to guarantee the outcome the global elites have devised for us. Global government, he suggests, must make us live our lives according to international standards of development.
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In an interview in the Catholic Magazine Famiglia Cristiana, Peres also called for the Pope to lead the inter-religious organization in order to curb terrorism: “What we need is an organization of United Religions… as the best way to combat terrorists who kill in the name of faith.”
Hammers are still useful. Sicyles not so much.
Agenda 21
Sachs is putting forth that the UN should be in charge of all national and individual rights. That we have to sacrifice our individual rights for the greater, collective good.
Sachs, a special advisor to the United Nations and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a media superstar who can always be counted on to pontificate endlessly on such topics as income inequality and global health. This time, writing in a Catholic publication, he may have gone off his rocker, revealing the real global game plan.
In these extraordinary comments, which constitute a frontal assault on the American idea of freedom and national sovereignty, Sachs has made it clear that he hopes to enlist the Vatican in a global campaign to increase the power of global or foreign-dominated organizations and movements.
“The Pope is offering the masses the opium of Marxism in his stances.”
Which Marxist stance?
His preaching of God and Jesus Christ?
His condemnation of atheism in his new encyclical?
His multiple condemnations of abortion?
His condemnation of gender theory, gay marriage, and the State’s attempt to redefine marriage and usurp the family?
His multiple condemnations of dropping certain passages of the Gospel because they conflict with one’s “ideology”?
It’s such lazy thinking to say the defense of the poor and crying out for them makes one a Communist or a Socialist. To say nothing of a total departure from the Christian tradition of reaching out to the needy.
If one wants to debate Francis’ words on the role of government or on the religions and nations banding together informally, that’s a legitimate debate. But I’m not gonna waste my time on something that speculates he’s a Marxist.
When the Clintons tried top push their poisonous anti-family agenda through a UN conference in 1995, Pope John Paul II reached out to the Muslim countries asking them to band together with Christian countries to thwart the agenda. It worked for then. It didn’t mean he was for a one world government.
The pope in Martin Luther’s day used the same line: Luther should not attack the corrupt Catholic Chuch because Christians had to be united to repel the Muslims who were on the march in Europe or Christianity would perish. Luther refused, saying that God would defend His Church, and He did. There is never a good reason to make a bad deal, something Kerry and Obama and this pope should know.
PFL
God shows us plainly. This dictators handed the pope a blasphemous take on the crucifix. The DNC in 2012 rejected God - three times— at their convention. Christians are enduring flagrant persecution in the U.S. — it is hard to figure out only for the willfully blind.
Just a modern day Communist, not a true Marxist. If he was a real one he’d sell the Vatican and give the money to the poor. $12 Billion dollars would help alot of poor people for a couple of months. The Vatican could house a few thousand homeless too.
And Extract from the article, which I read in its entirety:
Top Vatican adviser Jeffrey Sachs says that when Pope Francis visits the United States in September, he will directly challenge the “American idea” of God-given rights embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Sachs, a special advisor to the United Nations and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a media superstar who can always be counted on to pontificate endlessly on such topics as income inequality and global health. This time, writing in a Catholic publication, he may have gone off his rocker, revealing the real global game plan.
The United States, Sachs writes in the Jesuit publication America, is “a society in thrall” to the idea of unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But the “urgent core of Francis’ message” will be to challenge this “American idea” by “proclaiming that the path to happiness lies not solely or mainly through the defense of rights but through the exercise of virtues, most notably justice and charity.”
In these extraordinary comments, which constitute a frontal assault on the American idea of freedom and national sovereignty, Sachs has made it clear that he hopes to enlist the Vatican in a global campaign to increase the power of global or foreign-dominated organizations and movements.
This pope is a disgrace and must resign. The church is not a democracy and allows no dissent, so you will hear very little criticism of him from within.
He is a Marxist first, then pope, then catholic.
The Pope is a ‘Peronist’. An admirer of Juan Perón a
Argentinian military strong man that nationalized all foreign industries, printed money and pretty much ruined the country...
...but he had good intentions.
Did he get his cocaine yet?
Clearly the Pope is not a Marxist. It’s just that he keeps borrowing Chavez’s sermons.