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16-01-2009, 10:27 AM
"The UN, is now aiming to create a new world order over which a “supergovernment” would preside. “The Church will have no choice but to fight against such a form of globalization,” "
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http://conservation.catholic.org/Earth%20Charter.htm
VATICAN, Nov. 29, 2000 (CWNews.com) -- Msgr. Michel Schooyans, a noted Belgian political theorist, has expressed serious misgivings about the process of “globalization” as it is seen by the United Nations leadership.
Msgr. Schooyans, a member of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences and consultant to the Pontifical Council for the Family, offered his thoughts to a Vatican conference on globalization and the family. He suggested that in the eyes of UN officials, globalization means “a concentration of power that has the odor of totalitarianism.”
The UN, the Belgian professor observed, “thinks that the world in its entirety has more value than the person.” He added that according to this view — which he said is heavily influenced by New Age thinking — Christian humanism “has to be abandoned and rejected, in order to exalt a neo-pagan cult of Mother Earth.”
Msgr. Schooyans, who teaches at the Catholic University of Louvain, said that the “Earth Charter” currently being prepared by UN officials offers clear evidence to support his charges. In that document, he reported, the human race is depicted as “a part of a vast universe in the process of evolution,” and which is marked today by “an unprecedented growth in population that overtaxes economic and social systems.” The underlying philosophy of the Charter, he said, sees all religions — but particularly the Catholic faith — as obstacles to progress.
The UN, Msgr. Schooyans concluded, is now aiming to create a new world order over which a “supergovernment” would preside. “The Church will have no choice but to fight against such a form of globalization,” Msgr. Schooyans remarked. This powerful new government would suppress intermediate structures, and seek “more and more centralized control of information, knowledge, technology, human life, health, commerce, politics, and law.”
Vatican Cardinal: "A New World Order is Gaining Ground"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08112011.html
By John-Henry Westen
ROME, November 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Speaking at the opening of the 23rd plenary assembly for the Pontifical Council for the Laity, the president of the Council, Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, warned, "The idea of creating a 'new man' completely detached from the Judeo-Christian tradition, a new 'world order,' a new 'global ethic,' is gaining ground."
According to the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the cardinal denounced the "dictatorship of relativism," rampant in Western societies, in which there is a growing "anti-Christian attitude" that makes "attacks on Christians, and particular on Catholics, pass off as politically correct."
Speaking of Christians today he said, "Our true problem is not being a minority, but rather having voluntarily become marginal, irrelevant, because of our lack of courage, so that we will be left alone, because of our mediocrity." "For Christians," Cardinal Rylko added, "the moment has arrived to free themselves from a false inferiority complex … to be valiant witnesses of Christ."
This is, he said, the "hour of the laity," to take on their "responsibility in the diverse fields of public life, from politics to the promotion of life and family, from work to the economy, from education to the formation of youth."
He warned, however, that such faithfulness would come at a personal cost. "Whoever wants to live and act according to the Gospel of Christ has to pay a price, even in the highly liberal societies of the West," he said.
Full Story
http://conservation.catholic.org/Earth%20Charter.htm
VATICAN, Nov. 29, 2000 (CWNews.com) -- Msgr. Michel Schooyans, a noted Belgian political theorist, has expressed serious misgivings about the process of “globalization” as it is seen by the United Nations leadership.
Msgr. Schooyans, a member of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences and consultant to the Pontifical Council for the Family, offered his thoughts to a Vatican conference on globalization and the family. He suggested that in the eyes of UN officials, globalization means “a concentration of power that has the odor of totalitarianism.”
The UN, the Belgian professor observed, “thinks that the world in its entirety has more value than the person.” He added that according to this view — which he said is heavily influenced by New Age thinking — Christian humanism “has to be abandoned and rejected, in order to exalt a neo-pagan cult of Mother Earth.”
Msgr. Schooyans, who teaches at the Catholic University of Louvain, said that the “Earth Charter” currently being prepared by UN officials offers clear evidence to support his charges. In that document, he reported, the human race is depicted as “a part of a vast universe in the process of evolution,” and which is marked today by “an unprecedented growth in population that overtaxes economic and social systems.” The underlying philosophy of the Charter, he said, sees all religions — but particularly the Catholic faith — as obstacles to progress.
The UN, Msgr. Schooyans concluded, is now aiming to create a new world order over which a “supergovernment” would preside. “The Church will have no choice but to fight against such a form of globalization,” Msgr. Schooyans remarked. This powerful new government would suppress intermediate structures, and seek “more and more centralized control of information, knowledge, technology, human life, health, commerce, politics, and law.”
Vatican Cardinal: "A New World Order is Gaining Ground"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08112011.html
By John-Henry Westen
ROME, November 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Speaking at the opening of the 23rd plenary assembly for the Pontifical Council for the Laity, the president of the Council, Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, warned, "The idea of creating a 'new man' completely detached from the Judeo-Christian tradition, a new 'world order,' a new 'global ethic,' is gaining ground."
According to the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the cardinal denounced the "dictatorship of relativism," rampant in Western societies, in which there is a growing "anti-Christian attitude" that makes "attacks on Christians, and particular on Catholics, pass off as politically correct."
Speaking of Christians today he said, "Our true problem is not being a minority, but rather having voluntarily become marginal, irrelevant, because of our lack of courage, so that we will be left alone, because of our mediocrity." "For Christians," Cardinal Rylko added, "the moment has arrived to free themselves from a false inferiority complex … to be valiant witnesses of Christ."
This is, he said, the "hour of the laity," to take on their "responsibility in the diverse fields of public life, from politics to the promotion of life and family, from work to the economy, from education to the formation of youth."
He warned, however, that such faithfulness would come at a personal cost. "Whoever wants to live and act according to the Gospel of Christ has to pay a price, even in the highly liberal societies of the West," he said.