Editorial by John-Henry Westen
July 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Newspapers, blogs, talk-shows on radio and television are full of discussion over Pope Benedict XVI’s supposed call for a “new world order” or a “one-world government.” These ideas are, however, neither based in reality nor a clear reading of the Pope’s latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, the release of which yesterday spawned the heated discussion.
The Pope actually speaks directly against a one-world government, and, as would be expected from those who have read his previous writings, calls for massive reform of the United Nations. Confusion seems to have come from paragraph 67 of the encyclical, which has some choice pull-quotes which have spiced the pages of the world’s news, from the New York Times to those of conspiracy theorist bloggers seeing the Pope as the Anti-Christ.
The key quote which has led to the charge reads: “To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago.”
However, in paragraph 41, the Holy Father specifically differentiates his concept of a world political authority from that of a one-world government. “We must,” he says “promote a dispersed political authority.” He explains that “The integrated economy of the present day does not make the role of States redundant, but rather it commits governments to greater collaboration with one another. Both wisdom and prudence suggest not being too precipitous in declaring the demise of the State. In terms of the resolution of the current crisis, the State’s role seems destined to grow, as it regains many of its competences. In some nations, moreover, the construction or reconstruction of the State remains a key factor in their development.”
Later in the encyclical (57) he speaks of the opposite concept to one- world government -subsidiarity (the principle of Catholic social teaching which states that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority) - as being essential. “In order not to produce a dangerous universal power of a tyrannical nature, the governance of globalization must be marked by subsidiarity,” says the Pope.
Another of the key quotes which is being extracted for shock value from the encyclical is this: “In the face of the unrelenting growth of global interdependence, there is a strongly felt need, even in the midst of a global recession, for a reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth.”
Since long before his papacy, Joseph Ratzinger has vigorously fought the United Nations’ vision of a ‘New World Order’. As early as 1997, and repeated subsequently, Ratzinger took public aim at such a vision, noting that the philosophy coming from UN conferences and the Millennium Summit “proposes strategies to reduce the number of guests at the table of humanity, so that the presumed happiness [we] have attained will not be affected.”
“At the base of this New World Order”, he said is the ideology of “women’s empowerment,” which erroneously sees “the principal obstacles to [a woman’s] fulfillment [as] the family and maternity.” The then-cardinal advised that “at this stage of the development of the new image of the new world, Christians - and not just them but in any case they even more than others - have the duty to protest.”
Benedict XVI in fact repeats those criticisms in the new encyclical. In Caritas in Veritate, the Pope slams “practices of demographic control, on the part of governments that often promote contraception and even go so far as to impose abortion.” He also denounces international economic bodies such as the IMF and World Bank (without specifically naming them) for their lending practices which tie aid to so-called ‘family planning.’ “There is reason to suspect that development aid is sometimes linked to specific health-care policies which de facto involve the imposition of strong birth control measures,” says the encyclical.
Any vision of a proper ordering of the world, of international economics or political cooperation, suggests the Pope, must be based on a “moral order.” That includes first and foremost “the fundamental right to life” from conception to natural death, the recognition of the family based on marriage between one man and one woman as the basis of society and freedom for faith and cooperation among all peoples based on principles of natural law.
It won't wash.
I'm not doubting, per se, . . . at least not wholesale . . . the Pope's heart motives.
However, He's bright enough, connected enough, educated enough to know . . . that:
The Pope actually speaks directly against a one-world government, and, as would be expected from those who have read his previous writings, calls for massive reform of the United Nations. . . .
. . . Yes, out of one side of his fingers.
He, as XXIII before him, full well knows the global power reaches of the ruling oligarchy.
A) Is he denying what he knows of their power?
B) Is he pretending it's not true?
C) Is he pretending their long documented goals and means are not true?
D) Is he vainly pretending he will lead an alternative global power/government?
E) Is he pretending that the global oligarchy long in control under the table is NOT on the brink of bringing that control overtly onto the world stage in an obvious and public organized world government?
F) Is he pretending that these tyrants far worse than Hitler are going to play nice just because he asks them to?
G) Is he really that clueless?
H) Or, is he, perhaps worse, somehow deceptively complicit . . . talking cleverly out of both sides of his fingers in order to--in true Neuro Linguistic Programming fashion seduce folks into swallowing the bitter pill unawares?
I don't really know--but the evidence is super troubling.
Or are they just an excuse to use ink and paper with absolutely no intellectual content or purpose?
IF they mean something [apart from the usual Vatican rubber dictionary with it's infinitely malleable daffynitions],
Then we must conclude that we are to take those words more or less at face value.
GIVEN THAT--
This Pope above all others MUST KNOW the ruling oligarchy's positions, plans, schemes, methods on all those items.
IF he does not know, then he or his staff are unbelievably ignorant, incompetent or deluded.
IF he does know, THEN he HAS to KNOW that the ruling oligarchy will do ALL OF THOSE THINGS AS THEY HAVE LONG DELCARED THEY WILL DO: ACCORDING TO THEIR TYRANNICAL, RUTHLESS, DEPOPULATING ETC. GOALS, METHODS, SCHEMES FROM HELL. . . . (and as SCRIPTURE has declared they will do).
He has to know that there's not a blessed thing he can do about it to prevent their doing exactly as they have long declared AND HAVE INCREASINGLY MOLDED THE WORLD TOWARD.
It's sort of like . . . say . . . Mother Theresa standing in Austria or Czechoslovakian prior to Hitler's conquest . . . demanding in front of the onrushing German troops that they must be polite, give flowers to women and children and kiss all the babies--thereby producing a Papally sanctioned --revised kosher UN tyranny and string of properly 'righteous' death camps.
AHHHHHHHHH What sweet pontifications. I'm sure the globalist satan worshippers are impressed. They must be abandoning their tyrannical schemes in droves this very moment. /sar
Is he really that clueless? Does he REALLY BELIEVE that the ruling global oligarchy are going to REVISE their decades long almost totally achieved plans according to HIS PRESCRIPTION?
Or is he lobbying for some fine tuning along the way according to his sensibilities. . . . Perhaps using the Papal colors on the death trains? Or maybe insuring that there's proper blessings over the mass graves? Or maybe he hopes to get a globalist guarantee that plastic rosaries would hang around the necks of all the victims?
He must think his nice words will have miraculous powers at the globalilst's next planning meeting.
Oh, it's a nice, sweet little concept . . . in some respects. Local school boards are a LOT better than mandated Communism/global tyranny from WASH DC etc.
However, the globalists have already planned to implement their own version of it. Local policemen are reportedly scheduled to have arrest/prosecute/jury/judge and executioner functions all rolled into one. When a policeman finds anyone violating any law--shoot them dead on the spot. That's reducing a LOT of bureaucracy down very low on the totem pole. I'm sure the ruling oligarchy are quite flattered that the Pope supports their plans in terms of "subsidiarity."
Otherwise, the Pope's suggestions re "subsidiarity" are worth less than used toilet paper to the oligarchy. I doubt they'd give such writings the bother of a derisive 'snort.'
Wellllllllllll yet again, the globalist oligarchy and the Pope may be playing from the same script. The 'reform' of the UN is already scheduled. It will become much more:
--stream-lined;
--tax global citizens;
--be backed up by a very tyrannical global enforcement gestapo;
--work very hard at depopulating the world down to 200 million (by engineered plagues, scheduled famines, wars . . .);
--MARK OF THE BEAST chip implant ID's
. . .
. . .
Oh, the good Pope doesn't agree with ALL THOSE UN 'reforms.' No matter. The globalists will gleefully ignore him wherever it suits them. Is he REALLY so clueless as to believe they will not ignore him where it suits them?
At the base of this New World Order, he said is the ideology of womens empowerment, which erroneously sees the principal obstacles to [a womans] fulfillment [as] the family and maternity. The then-cardinal advised that at this stage of the development of the new image of the new world, Christians - and not just them but in any case they even more than others - have the duty to protest. Benedict XVI in fact repeats those criticisms in the new encyclical. In Caritas in Veritate, the Pope slams practices of demographic control, on the part of governments that often promote contraception and even go so far as to impose abortion. He also denounces international economic bodies such as the IMF and World Bank (without specifically naming them) for their lending practices which tie aid to so-called family planning. There is reason to suspect that development aid is sometimes linked to specific health-care policies which de facto involve the imposition of strong birth control measures, says the encyclical. Any vision of a proper ordering of the world, of international economics or political cooperation, suggests the Pope, must be based on a moral order. That includes first and foremost the fundamental right to life from conception to natural death, the recognition of the family based on marriage between one man and one woman as the basis of society and freedom for faith and cooperation among all peoples based on principles of natural law.
WHAT WONDERFUL . . . .
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I'm sure that these ruling elites [who are rumored to have to brutally, literally blood sacrifice one of their own children or at least bugger a little boy as an initiation rite] . . .
I'm sure these nice gentlemen are abandoning their 100+ years of plans and achievements this very moment just because the good Pope asks them to. /sar
Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, dogs and cats . . . this great logic is brought to you by the same folks who think that the Vatican is the definer of Christianity and that Prottys are illogical!
GTTM (Guffaws To The Max).
Sigh.
THANKFULLY, GOD IS STILL ON THE THRONE. He has the globalists' demise all planned out to the nth degree.
I suppose it's not greatly harmful to some awake folks if the Pope pontificates delusionally. However, if he really is using paradoxical speak-out-of-both-sides-of-his-fingers schemes to seduce the walking dead and willfully blind into submitting more to the globalist schemes . . . then that's a bit more serious.