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09/24/2015 01:39 pm ET Updated Dec 27, 2016
Pope Francis Wants To Be President Of The World
OK, that’s not a real job, but
he is seeking to lead the global conversation.
By Howard Fineman
Pope Francis was
addressing Congress but speaking to the world.CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS
Pope Francis was addressing Congress but speaking to the world.
WASHINGTON — He hasn’t announced his candidacy.
Indeed, the job he seeks doesn’t really exist.
But shrewdly, methodically and with a showman’s flair, the soft-spoken, 78-year-old Argentinian Jesuit priest named Jorge Mario Bergoglio — Pope Francis —
showed Thursday that he is running to become president of the planet.He did so in a congressional ceremony of secular civic pomp in a massive legislative building that, after all, harks back to ancient Rome.
As devout as he is, and as focused on the faith and practice of the Catholic Church, Francis is also c
ampaigning to lead public, secular, political discourse worldwide. He is arguing that
the two realms of faith and politics are one, and that
the moral and spiritual teachings of faith should inform and guide political decisions for “our common home.”
This is not a new idea, but it seems again a timely one. Francis’ own church sorely needs the refreshing input of world opinion. Secular leaders, meanwhile, are reviled and government itself
seems to have lost any sense of moral purpose.With the rope-line skills of Bill Clinton and the stagecraft mastery of Ronald Reagan, Francis is selling himself and his message in Washington like the political master that he is.
In his speech to the U.S. Congress —
the first ever delivered by a pope — he never directly mentioned abortion. He defended the “family,” but didn’t specifically define it by gender or sexual preference. He didn’t speak of an assault on traditional Catholic or even Judeo-Christian culture.
That is so yesterday.
Instead, Pope Francis gave a 45-minute secular homily to Congress on the need for American lawmakers to hono
r communal morality drawn from the Catholic social gospel. In U.S. political terms, it was as if this man clad in simple white robes was leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
He beseeched U.S. lawmakers — and, by extension, government leaders around the world — to use their temporal power to lift up those in extreme poverty, to fulfill promises of racial equality, to make peace with former ideological enemies, to welcome immigrants with open arms, to end arms sales and to save the ecology of the planet.
Francis singled out for praise and emulation Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton. It was a roster of heroes who, taken together, provide a template for government action on behalf of the dispossessed.
His approach draws on his roots. As a youth in Argentina, he had admired Juan Peron, whose brand of paternalistic, personality-cult socialism propelled him to power with increasingly enthusiastic backing of the Catholic Church. Today, Francis skillfully wields social media and his own popularity.
The pope’s challenge to Congress was theoretically bipartisan — indeed, universal — in nature.
But if conservatives in the House chamber had expected at least a few nods in their direction, they received next to none. Republicans applauded and stood politely when necessary. But it wasn’t their context, and, in purely political terms, he isn’t their pope. For Southern Republicans, it’s hard to imagine a less palatable list of heroes than the ones Francis listed.
The first pope from the Americas arrived in the United States just as its next presidential contest takes center stage, and he plunged right in to the debate, hitting on climate change, immigration and the refugee crisis.
Politically speaking, his &ldquo
;common good” theme has a sound defensive side: Moving the subject away from abortion, sexual orientation and gay marriage could also downplay the church’s own controversial record on matters of priestly behavior.
But the new emphasis on
economics, race and social justice has another, broader aim: to win new converts in the developing world by offering to lead the armies of the poor and disadvantaged. To put it another way, he’s taking the church back to its original base.
Francis knows the demographics: In Latin America, Africa and elsewhere, the Catholic Church is in competition with Islam and Evangelical Protestantism.
The pope wants to win that battle, and Washington was one more stop on the campaign tour.
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Dus de moraliteit van 'het geloof' moet de politieke leiders van de wereld informeren.
Hoe kan dit ooit in de praktijk worden gebracht? Via de Verenigde Naties, en door het ondertekenen van verdragen en agenda's. Onder andere via het 'Global Education Pact' wat door wereldleiders en leidende organisaties zal worden ondertekend.
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Vatican urged to partner with top population controllers on pope’s Global Education PactWill Pope Francis’s Global Education Pact for a ‘new humanism’
mobilize funding for population control?
Fri Feb 14, 2020 - 7:23 pm EST
ROME, February 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — American economist and population control proponent Jeffrey Sachs has announced that potential funding partners for Pope Francis’s May 2020
Global Education Pact to create a “new humanism” include U.S. billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, China’s wealthiest business magnate, UNESCO and other United Nations agencies, and the Islamic Development Bank.A key means of population control for Sachs and several potential funders is education. It is also the preferred method of population control for Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Vatican academy where the announcement was made.
Speaking at a Vatican workshop on the Global Education Pact hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, on February 6–7, Sachs said he had “spoken with some of the world’s wealthiest people” and is confident that an estimated $26-billion-a-year education fund can be secured.
“Here is where we’re going to get the funds,” he told invited guests, as he presented a slide of “Partners for the Global Pact for Education and a New Fund for Education.”
The list includes:
Donor governments
European Union
Major philanthropists (Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Mukesh Ambani)
Islamic Development Bank
UNESCO, UNICEF, other U.N. Agencies
International Monetary Fund
U.N. Secretary-General’s SGD Advocates
Global Citizens NGO
Youth for the Future
Sachs, a regular participant in pontifical academy conferences and an adviser to Pope Francis on sustainable development, said he had “recently” spoken with American, Chinese, and Indian billionaire business magnates Bill Gates, Jack Ma, and Mukesh Ambani about the project and had also visited the Islamic Development Bank.
He also assured participants at the February 6–7 “Workshop on Education: the Global Compact” that the managing director of the International Monetary Fund has expressed “complete commitment” to the agenda, that Global Citizens NGO for the SDGs includes “many of the most famous rock stars in the world and some of the most famous performing artists,” and that Greta Thunberg and other young people are “ready to join.”
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POPE'S 'GLOBAL EDUCATION' SPARKS CONCERN
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by David Nussman o ChurchMilitant.com o January 10, 2020 134 Comments
Focus is on environmentalism, interreligious dialogue
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Faithful Catholics are increasingly troubled by a Vatican event coming up in May, where world leaders and young people will meet with Pope Francis to forge a so-called Global Education Alliance.
In a recent interview, Cdl. Raymond Burke said the meeting seems bent toward
making a one-world government, adding, "With the spread of Islam, especially in Europe but also in the United States, there is an effort to dull people's consciousness about the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ as it is proclaimed in the gospel."
When the Pope announced plans for the education meeting last September, he said the purpose is to foster peace around the world, and raise concern about the environment.
Pope Francis: "We need a global compact on education, aimed at developing a new universal solidarity and a new humanism."
The global gathering in Rome will come five years after Francis released the encyclical Laudato Sí -- largely focused on environmentalism.
Last February, Pope Francis and a Muslim imam co-signed the "Document on Human Fraternity," which erroneously claims that God wills the existence of multiple religions.It seems the event in May will be in the same vein.
Pope Francis: "First of all, the ground must be cleared of discrimination, as I stated in the document that I recently signed with the Grand Imam of al-Azhar in Abu Dhabi."
As often happens during Francis' pontificate, the build-up to this Vatican event leaves faithful Catholics worried for the Church and the world.
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