Update: Pope Francis and One-World Religion [Pope Picked to Lead One-World Church]

Isn’t it extraordinary how something long in existence can be suddenly re-proposed as a brilliant new idea? Politicians and educators, hoping we have memory problems, often do this to fool us into thinking they are working hard to improve a situation. Another audacious example of this strategy was recently provided by the Holy See’s support of a proposal for a “United Religions”.

The proposal came from former Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shimon Peres. At a private audience with Pope Francis this September 4th, Peres “proposed the founding of a United Religions organization — modelled after the United Nations — to fight terrorism”.[1]

In an interview with the Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana, Peres said he wanted to establish an international body representing the world’s major religions, as “an unquestionable moral authority” able to intervene in conflicts, “a UN of religions”.

Like the UN Charter, he added, there should be a United Religions Charter. “The new Charter would state on behalf of all faiths that slitting people’s throats or carrying out mass slaughters … has nothing to do with religion”. Furthermore, he said, Pope Francis would be the best leader for the United Religions Organization because “perhaps for the first time in history the Holy Father is a leader who’s respected, not just by a lot of people, but also by different religions and their representatives”.

Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ, indicated that Peres’ proposal was a new idea for Francis. "The pope listened, showing his interest, his attention and encouragement". But, "the pope made no personal commitment," telling Peres that the Pontifical Councils for Interreligious Dialogue and for Justice and Peace are the offices "suitable" for supporting or following such initiatives. Their presidents would “consider this proposal carefully,” said Fr. Lombardi.[2]

The problem: Mr. Peres proposed something that has been running for fourteen years, promulgated by the UN itself, with a signed Charter, and with the same goals he's promoting! The only difference is that the existing Charter does not mention beheadings or slaughters.

Pope Francis should have reminded him of this, especially since the UR is not a new idea for Francis. As Archbishop of Buenos Aires he invited its founder and head to an interfaith service in his cathedral to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UR in Latin America. Furthermore, the Holy See has been aware of the United Religions from its conception, and has been working for its goals through its founding partners.

Do Peres and the Vatican have collective Alzheimer’s, or are they confident that most Catholics are ignorant/ suffering amnesia? The history of the United Religions illustrates the extent of their disingenuousness.

The Masonic one-world religion of the New World Order, in the making for over 150 years, materialized in June 1997 as the United Religions Organization.[4] Chief partners in its establishment were Episcopal Bishop of California, William Swing; the Communist Gorbachev Foundation/USA (later The State of the World Forum); and the syncretic World Conference on Religion and Peace, now called Religions for Peace (RfP).

Bishop Swing is an anti-population and pro-homosexuality activist. He is a follower of the expelled Dominican and occultist, Matthew Fox, who became an Episcopalian minister under Swing.

Religions for Peace is an internationalist, occult UN Non-Govermental Organization headquartered at the United Nations in New York. It is an important “unofficial” Vatican channel for interreligious activities, said Francis Cardinal Arinze, former head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. It was co-founded in 1960 by John Cardinal Wright, and its first international president was Archbishop Angelo Fernandes of New Delhi. In 1994 it held the first-ever interfaith conference at the Vatican, with Pope John Paul its opening speaker.

Many bishops and cardinals have been collaborating with the RfP as Co-Presidents or Honorary Presidents. These include Peter Cardinal Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, who is the one tasked to follow up on Peres’ proposal; and Oscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga, the head of Pope Francis’ special advisory group of cardinals.

The Gorbachev Foundation/USA was set up as a Russian intelligence operation at the Presidio, a former military base in San Francisco, months before the dismantling of the USSR. Gorbachev is a major coordinator of world governance and a leading proponent of population extermination and the destruction of religion. This Marxist-Leninist met more than once with Pope John Paul and addressed the pontiff and political leaders at the Vatican in 2000.

The United Religions is a United Nations project. Plans for its formation were revealed to world leaders in June 1995 by Bishop Swing at the occult, earth-worshipping interfaith service he was invited to conduct for the UN, celebrating its 50th anniversary. Present at San Francisco’s Episcopal Grace Cathedral were political luminaries and representatives of all religions, including Britain’s Princess Margaret, Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Polish President Lech Walesa, and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Archbishop Renato Martino (Vatican nuncio to the UN) and Archbishop John Quinn of San Francisco also attended — i.e., the Vatican has known of the UR from the beginning.

Patterned after the UN, the UR is meant to be for religions what the UN is for nations: a "permanent gathering center where the world's religions engage in daily prayer, dialogue, and action for the good of all life on this earth," and where they will make peace amongst themselves and "work together for the healing of the earth." Using the “light” of paganism and occultism, it aims to solve the usual social issues.

But more importantly, it’s also “an attempt to bring accountability to the religious forum”. As the world’s religious authority, it aims to wipe out “fundamentalism,” which is blamed for wars and conflicts. Teilhardian Robert Muller, a former UN Assistant Secretary-General and New World Order designer, declared that fundamentalism's "inflexible belief systems" "play an incendiary role in global conflicts." "Peace will be impossible," he said, "without the taming of fundamentalism through a United Religions that professes faithfulness `only to the global spirituality and to the health of this planet.'" This is also the basic theme of the Peres proposal.

In 1996, Bishop Swing called the process of forming the United Religions “The United Religions Initiative 2000”. The name United Religions Initiative (URI) is still being used for the United Religions, although the one-world church became fully functional in 2000.

A "preliminary" charter-writing conference was held in June 1997 at Stanford University, California. The 200 delegates “predict[ed] they had given birth to a movement as well as a spiritual institution: the United Religions”. Bishop Swing “deputized” them to "tell the people that there is a United Religions."

The URI Charter was finally signed on June 26, 2000, during a six-day Summit in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, making the one-world church a reality. (June 26th is also the anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter.) The wording of the URI Charter suggests that “proselytizing” and upholding Christian morality could be considered threats to peace.

This interreligious Summit was opened by native spiritualists invoking “the great spirit,” and closed by a member of the URI Global Council who performed a Wiccan “blessing”. He invoked Hecate and Hermes, whilst Bishop Swing raised his hands in invocation. At least eight “highly respected” Catholic priests attended the Summit as supporters. Rev. P. Gerard O’Rourke, Director of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, declared he was there in an official capacity.[5]

The URI is headquartered at the Presidio, with “satelllite centers” in other cities, including Buenos Aires. It has built up a wide international network through regional conferences and other activities. Its goal is "A U.N. for religion" that will foster peace. "We are going to end this millennium with peace among religions," said Bishop Swing in 1997. "There is untapped solidarity among religions."

Swing personally pitched the idea of the United Religions to many religious leaders. He got Mother Teresa on board, but posted no report on Pope John Paul’s reaction.

It should be obvious why the Popes cannot openly support the URI; to lead it would be tantamount to sailing the barque of St. Peter under the standard of Satan.

But it may be only a matter of time. At a Theosophical lecture in Boston in 1991, the New England Director of Theosophy described the plan for establishing the one-world religion:

This announcement supposedly would herald the Pope as the leader of the one-world religion.[6]

So what prompted Mr. Peres’ sudden “epiphany” this year to create a United Religions? It certainly was carefully orchestrated to look spontaneous.

• April 2013: Peres visits Pope Francis. Inviting him to Jerusalem, “the sooner the better,” he says, “You have an important role in progressing peace and the belief in it”.[7]

• February 2014: An Argentinian interfaith group created by Archbishop Bergoglio is greeted in Israel by Peres, who praises the Pope because “he returned religion into a spirit rather than an organization, a faith more than a church”.[9]

• May 2014: Pope Francis visits the Holy Land. In front of the Wailing Wall he partakes in a group hug with his two Argentinian travelling companions, Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Muslim leader Omar Abboud. Vatican spokesman Fr. Lombardi enthuses, “They have given us a sign in a significant and holy place. This is an important message, that they can embrace together”. The pope also stresses the “universal and cultural significance” of Jerusalem, and its importance to Christians, Muslims and Jews. Before leaving, Francis invites Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the Vatican for a prayer meeting for Middle East peace.[10]

• Only two weeks later, June 8, 2014, Pentecost Sunday: the two presidents and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attend this interfaith prayer meeting on a triangular Vatican lawn, along with several high-up members of Religions for Peace. The “neutral” site chosen is devoid of all religious symbols.[11] Catholic participants thus witness to the Masonic one-world religion instead of to Jesus Christ and His Church!

• June 9, 2014: Pope Francis criticizes “fundamentalism” in Christianity, Judaism and Islam as violence: "A fundamentalist group, even if it doesn't strike anyone, is violent. The mentality of fundamentalism is violence in the name of God."[12]

• September 4, 2014: Peres shares his “epiphany moment” with the Pope and asks him to head his visionary United Religions. Father Lombardi reveals that this proposal followed from the syncretic June prayer meeting. He says the Pope “stressed to me” that the meeting was “the opening of a door” to encouraging further initiatives “to develop and go forward”.[13]

It seems the true God was not impressed by the atheistic Vatican prayer meeting for peace in the Middle East. The area exploded in war right after it.

On July 8th, Israel began a 50-day campaign against Gaza that killed more than 2,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians. Israeli deaths totalled 6 civilians and 67 soldiers.[14]

And at the same time as the prayer meeting, Islamic militants began a bloody rampage across Iraq, leading three weeks later to the proclamation of a “caliphate” and a call-to-arms of Muslims across the world.[15]

But Fr. Lombardi was very pleased with the success of the prayer meeting. He remarked after the September 4th audience, “The prayer for peace initiative which took place here” with Peres and Abbas, “is in no wise to be considered a failure – subsequent developments notwithstanding – but rather as the opening of a door…”.[16]

Considering the massacres that followed the prayer meeting, this callous assessment implies that the Holy See is more devoted to the formation of the one-world religion rather than actual peace. Indeed, if peace were its concern, the peace plan of Our Lady of Fatima would have long ago been carried out.

And what about Nobel Peace Laureate Peres, touted as a “crusader for peace”? About a week after the Gaza offensive began, with 200 Palestinians and one Israeli dead, he defended Israel’s heavy-handed actions: “If they are shooting at us, and don’t let our mothers and their children … have a full night’s sleep, what can we do?”

But he needn’t worry. The One-World Church now has official papal blessing. Surely peace will follow swiftly.

1) “Former Israeli President Peres Meets with Pope, Proposes UN for Religions,” http://www.kabc.com/common/more.php?m=58&ts=1409835903&article=FCE138B6343111E4B51EFEFDADE6840A&mode=2, [5] September 2014. 2) Carol Glatz, “Peres: Pope Francis is Only Leader Respected Enough to End Today's Wars,” http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1403674.htm, 4 September 2014; Marco Tosatti, “Peres’ Proposal to Francis to Set Up a UN of Religions,” http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/medio-oriente-middle-east-medio-oriente-36134/, 4 September 2014. 3) Bishop William E. Swing, http://www.uri.org/the_latest/2013/09/my_house_shall_be_a_house_of_prayer_for_all_people, 18 September 2013; Maria Eugenia Crespo de Mafia, http://www.uri.org/the_latest/2014/03/one_year_backreflections_on_pope_francis, 13 March 2014. 4) Unless otherwise indicated, details of the UR’s history are taken from our articles, “One-World Church Expected Next Year,” “One-World Church Starts Up,” and “Pope Francis Encourages the One-World Church?”, in, respectively, the October 1996, November 1997 and June 2014 issues of Catholic Family News; and “The One-World Church Emerges,” Homiletic & Pastoral Review, January 1999. 5) Carl Teichrib, “Blending of the Gods: The United Religions Initiative Global Charter Signing,” http://www.inplainsite.org/html/united_religions_initiative.html#URI4. 6) “Complete Seminar Notes From House of Theosophy Seminar…,” http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1052.html; http://secretsocietyindex.blogspot.ca/2012/09/one-world-religion-now-officially-born.html. Theosophy is a cornerstone of the New Age, preaching the evolution of the universe to godhood. The Masonic Theosophical Society was founded by Russian occultist and New Age Movement creator Helena Blavatsky in New York in 1875. 7) Cindy Wooden, “Israeli President Invites Pope to Visit Israel, ‘the Sooner the Better,’” http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1301910.htm, 30 April 2013. 8) Kerri Lenartowick, http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-announces-pilgrimage-to-holy-land/, 5 January 2014. 9) http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/02/23/peres-praises-pope-francis-in-meeting-with-argentinian-interfaith-leaders/. William Booth and Ruth Eglash, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pope-francis-balances-time-with-israelis-and-palestinians-during-visit-to-holy-land/2014/05/26/c39b126c-e4d5-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html; “On Last Morning in 10) Holy Land, Pope Reaches out to Muslims, Jews,” http://thecatholicspirit.com/featured/last-morning-holy-land-pope-reaches-muslims-jews/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=last-morning-holy-land-pope-reaches-muslims-jews , 26 May 2014. 11) Religions for Peace Global Newsletter, June 2014, http://religionsforpeace.org/sites/default/files/pubications/FINAL%20NEWSLETTER.pdf; http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/06/06/Islamic-prayers-to-be-held-at-the-Vatican.html; Philip Pullella, “Pope says Israelis, Palestinians must seek peace ‘undaunted in dialogue,’” http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/08/us-pope-mideast-idUSKBN0EJ0G720140608. 12) “Full Text of Pope Francis’ Interview …,” http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-interview-with-la-vanguardia---full-text-45430/, 13 June 2014. 13) http://thechurchinmalta.org/en/posts/45084/peace,-dialogue-at-centre-of-audiences-with-peres-and-hassan, 5 September 2014. Isabel Kershner, “Israel to Probe Five Incidents fo Possible Military Misconduct,” Globe and Mail, 11 September 2014, p. A11. 14) Yara Bayoumy, “‘Caliph’ Calls on all Muslims to Take up Arms,” The Globe and Mail, 2 July 2014, p. A8. 15) http://thechurchinmalta.org/en/posts/45084/peace,-dialogue-at-centre-of-audiences-with-peres-and-hassan. 16) Dan Perry, http://www.timesofisrael.com/peres-defends-idf-airstrikes-on-gaza/#!, 15

“By disobedience, the Pope can separate himself from Christ despite the fact that he is head of the Church, for above all, the unity
of the Church is dependent upon its relationship with Christ. The Pope can separate himself from Christ either by disobeying the law of Christ, or by commanding something that is against the divine or natural law. By doing so, the Pope separates himself from the body of the Church because this body is itself linked to Christ by obedience. In this way, the Pope would, without doubt, fall into schism....
“He would do that if he did not observe that which the Universal Church observes in basing herself on the Tradition of the Apostles, or if he did not observe that which has been ordained for the whole world by the universal councils or by the authority of the Apostolic See. ESPECIALLY IS THIS TRUE WITH REGARD TO THE DIVINE LITURGY, as, for example, if he did not wish personally to follow the universal customs and rites of the Church.”

Cardinal Juan de Torquemada (Summa de Ecclesia 1489)

Proclaimed “Defender of the Faith” by Pope Eugene IV

• June 9, 2014: Pope Francis criticizes “fundamentalism” in Christianity, Judaism and Islam as violence: “A fundamentalist group, even if it doesn’t strike anyone, is violent. The mentality of fundamentalism is violence in the name of God.”[12]

They have to erase fundamental Jews, Christians and Muslims. Their words are violent? It won’t be the Jews or the Muslims who tolerate this nonsense. There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim. Israel won’t kill off orthodox Jews.

But American Orthodox Jews and Christians will be dead meat. Real Christians and Jews won’t say Allah is God and the US is transforming into a Nazi state that prefers Muslims. Real Christians and Jews won’t worship Mohammad or any other god. They are trying to erase the name of Jesus and real Christians won’t be doing that either. Our prayers and thought will be consider a violent crime? So be it, dopey popey.

Pope Francis’ religious indifferentism is the doctrinal nemesis of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI and is in stark opposition to the Magisterium of the Church.

One example among many: Pope Pius VIII forcefully condemned religious indifferentism in the encyclical Traditi humilati nostrae:

“And this is the lethal system of religious indifferentism, which is repudiated by the light of natural reason itself. In this light we are warned that, among many religions which disagree with one another, when one is true, anther must necessarily be false, and we are further admonished that there can be no association with light and darkness. Against these repeaters of ancient errors, the people must be assured, Venerable Brethren, that the profession of the Catholic Faith is alone the true one, since the Apostle tells us that there is one Lord and one baptism. As Jerome says, the man who eats the Lamb outside of this house is profane, and the man who is not in the ark of Noah is going to perish in the deluge. Neither is there any other name apart form the Name of Jesus give to men by which we must be saved. He who believes will be saved, and he who shall not have believed will be condemned.”[9]

Can anyone even imagine Pope Francis speaking like this? (comments by ebb tide)

Remember H.H. Pope Benedict XVI lecture at Regensburg and his strong criticism of Islam.

Speaking about Islam, Benedict XVI referred to remarks from Emperor Manual II Paleologos of Byzantine (the Orthodox Christian empire which had its capital in what is now the city of Istanbul ) regarding the role of this religion.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”[3] The emperor, after having expressed himself so forcefully, goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul. "God", he says, "is not pleased by blood - and not acting reasonably (σὺν λόγω) is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death...".

The so called “religion of peace” is:

The Greatest Murder Machine in History

By Mike Konrad

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/05/the_greatest_murder_machine_in_history.html#ixzz3Kbkg5gfO

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