Pope continues crusade for one world government
Pastor Dale Morgan
Pope continues crusade for one world government*
By Cliff Kincaid ⋅ January 13, 2010 ⋅
Glenn Beck recently said that he was inundated with messages from people
concerned about an Obama executive order giving special rights to the
international police organization known as Interpol. But what about the
global campaign by the Vatican to establish a “World Political
Authority” with “teeth.” Don’t look for Beck, O’Reilly or anybody else
in the media to take on Pope Benedict XVI. It is just too controversial.
Commentators who question the Vatican run the risk of being labeled
anti-Catholic bigots.
Many Catholics, especially of a conservative persuasion, are embarrassed
and troubled by what is happening inside their church. But they are
mostly reluctant to say anything publicly. The facts, however, speak for
themselves, and they are available on the Vatican’s own website in the
actual words and statements being uttered by the Pope.
Consider, for example, Pope Benedict’s passionate embrace of the radical
environmental movement. The Washington Times on Tuesday ran a front-page
photo of the Pope greeting ambassadors to the Vatican during his new
year’s address to the diplomatic corps. “The Pope denounced the failure
of world leaders to agree on a climate change treaty last month,” the
caption said. It’s true. Despite the Climategate scandal that has thrown
the man-made global warming theory into disrepute, the Pope is still a
believer in the discredited claims being made about the role of man in
creating a hotter planet and he is trying to force world leaders to
embrace and act on them.
Acting more like a politician than a religious leader, the pope
complained about the failure at the Copenhagen conference to come up
with a new treaty to punish Western nations, led by the United States,
that have used fossil fuels for industrial development. Referring to
“the growing concern caused by economic and political resistance to
combating the degradation of the environment,” he said, “This problem
was evident even recently, during the XV Session of the Conference of
the States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change held in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December last. I trust that in
the course of this year, first in Bonn and later in Mexico City, it will
be possible to reach an agreement for effectively dealing with this
question. The issue is all the more important in that the very future of
some nations is at stake, particularly some island states.”
The Pope, therefore, is going to use his influence to get a treaty
written, passed, and imposed on the world.
The Pope went on to embrace other aspects of the global “progressive”
agenda, endorsing the holding of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Review Conference in New York in May, so that “concrete decisions will
be made towards progressive disarmament, with a view to freeing our
planet from nuclear arms.” This is Obama’s goal as well.
Zero nuclear weapons sounds good in theory, but what does it mean,
practically speaking, when the world is confronted by a fanatical regime
in Iran determined to acquire them? All that the Pope said about this
was, “Concerning Iran, I express my hope that through dialogue and
cooperation joint solutions will be found on the national as well as the
international level.” Not even President Obama treats the Iranian
problem with such platitudes. Obama at least talks about sanctions
against Iran.
In reality, the Pope’s recipe for a nuclear-free world means appeasement
of Iran, its acquisition of nuclear weapons, and a more dangerous world
with more nuclear weapons.
Strangely, the Pope called for a new global warming treaty but admitted
that centralized planning to “save” the environment hasn’t worked on the
national level. He said, “Twenty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin
wall and the collapse of the materialistic and atheistic regimes which
had for several decades dominated a part of this continent, was it not
easy to assess the great harm which an economic system lacking any
reference to the truth about man had done not only to the dignity and
freedom of individuals and peoples, but to nature itself, by polluting
soil, water and air?”
The Pope was admitting that a communist-style economic system was not
only a threat to man but the environment. Yet, he now wants the United
Nations to play a central role in policing a new global agreement on the
environment and disarming the nations of the world. As dangerous as this
may sound, this objective is consistent with his endorsement of a “World
Political Authority,” a key recommendation from his Caritas in Veritate
encyclical.
In that controversial document, the Pope explained that a “World
Political Authority” was necessary in order 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…”
These shocking statements in favor of what is clearly a world government
immediately followed the Pope’s recommendation that, in the face of the
“unrelenting growth of global interdependence,” the United Nations must
be reformed so that “the concept of the family of nations can acquire
real teeth.”
So the Pope wants a strengthened United Nations to constitute a “World
Political Authority” that will have the “teeth” to enforce its will on
the nations of the world? Will somebody in the media explain why this is
not global tyranny? This makes the controversy over Interpol look like
peanuts.
Of course, few in the media want to bring up this sensitive subject.
After all, the Pope is a religious leader of 1.2 billion Catholics, with
63 million of them here in the U.S. But it’s precisely because the
Catholic Church is the largest religious body in America that the
statements of its leader deserve media scrutiny.
Before he spoke to the diplomats, on the occasion of the World Day of
Peace, the Pope issued a January 1, 2010 statement based on the theme,
“If You Want to Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation.” Again, sounding like
Al Gore or Barack Obama, the Pope said that “the threats arising from
the neglect―if not downright misuse―of the earth and the natural goods
that God has given us” were as troubling as “wars, international and
regional conflicts, acts of terrorism, and violations of human rights.”
The Pope reiterated that the campaign to pass a new global warming
treaty should be part of a broader campaign to remake the global
economy. “It should be evident that the ecological crisis cannot be
viewed in isolation from other related questions, since it is closely
linked to the notion of development itself and our understanding of man
in his relationship to others and to the rest of creation,” he said.
“Prudence would thus dictate a profound, long-term review of our model
of development, one which would take into consideration the meaning of
the economy and its goals with an eye to correcting its malfunctions and
misapplications. The ecological health of the planet calls for this, but
it is also demanded by the cultural and moral crisis of humanity whose
symptoms have for some time been evident in every part of the world.”
(emphasis in the original)
Is all of this flowery rhetoric designed to usher in a new socialist
international order? Is this what he means by changing the “model of
development?”
One problem is that the Pope gives fewer news conferences than Obama. In
fact, he gives none. So who in the media has the courage to hold the
Vatican accountable for its campaign to help Obama usher us into a New
World Order on the basis of nonsense about the environment and nuclear
weapons?