A warning against false world religion seen in Pope's meeting with Hans Kung...
"We have
theologians who now consider themselves as gods upon earth. They are setting up
a new world religion, a one-world religion based on humanism and modernism. This
will not continue much longer, My children. It has taken many earth years to
develop these theories. And those who have their heads in the clouds, though
they wear the purple hats and the red hats, those who have become blinded from
the excessive love of luxury and materialism, shall be lost in the chaos." -
Our Lady of the Roses, September 27, 1986
LifeSiteNews reported on September 28, 2005:
The media is rife with stories about
the meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and famed Catholic dissident
Hans Küng. There is also much heated debate within Catholic circles
over what the (according to Küng) 4-hour meeting, signified.
Many orthodox Catholics are chalking
the meeting up to the fact that Küng and Pope Benedict are old
friends turned enemies and now reacquainted in their old age.
So-called 'liberal' or dissident Catholics are reading into the
meeting a 'new openness' to dissident views. Küng himself is musing
about the meeting as a sign of new "openness" on the part of Pope
Benedict.
While Küng has given several
interviews following his meeting with the Pope, the only official
message to come from the Vatican on the meeting contained few
details. For the best summary of Küng's take on the meeting and his
dissident history see John Allen's report in the National Catholic
Reporter here: (warning: it is a dissident Catholic publication)
http://nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/bn09260...
Küng suggests that Pope Benedict
himself penned the Vatican statement on the meeting, checking it
with Küng prior to releasing it. The text (which can be viewed
here:
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=6086... )
acknowledges the meeting but does not note the duration, and
confirms that it was held in a "friendly atmosphere" and did not
delve into doctrinal disputes. The statement notes that the
discussion centered on Küng's 'Weltethos' (global ethics) project.
The Vatican statement says "The Pope welcomed Professor Kung's
efforts to contribute to a renewed recognition of the essential
moral values of humanity through the dialogue of religions and in
the encounter with secular reason. He stressed that the commitment
to a renewed awareness of the values that sustain human life is also
an important objective of his own pontificate."
The push for "values that sustain
human life" on the part of the Pope seems to be the only significant
point the Vatican has made with the announcement.
But for those following the global
ethics project, that intervention by the Pope is significant indeed.
Küng first pushed his notion of a
global ethic at the United Nations in 1991 and then at the
Parliament of World Religions in 1993. There the gathered religious
leaders adopted the declaration "Towards a Global Ethic" which
became a rallying cry both in UN documents and gatherings of
international leaders culminating in the formation of the Earth
Charter by former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev and
Canadian-born UN environmentalist guru Maurice Strong. The founding
documents of the Earth Charter credit Küng's global ethics with its
underpinning.
While the global ethics document is
amorphous and open-ended, the Earth Charter is in favour of abortion
under the UN code words of 'reproductive' health in relation to
population control. The Charter's resolution 7 calls all to "Adopt
patterns of production, consumption, and reproduction that safeguard
Earth's regenerative capacities, human rights, and community
well-being" and in subsection 'e' calls on people to "Ensure
universal access to health care that fosters reproductive health and
responsible reproduction."
The Earth Charter has been criticized
as a "new age Ten Commandments" seeking to supersede religious moral
codes. Indeed the Earth Charter website (http://www.earthcharter.org
) boasts of nearly 15,000 "Groups, organizations and individuals
from around the world, representing millions of people" which have
officially endorsed the Earth Charter.
With the Pope stressing pro-life
concerns to Küng, the progenitor of the Earth Charter, he can be
seen as addressing the problem of the global ethic at its root. The
Catholic Church has long acknowledged a system of moral ethics which
can be agreed upon even without religious belief - that of natural
law. However, current secular morality, such as that of the Earth
Charter, has rejected natural law on issues of life and family and
has turned evil into good and good into evil.
In the new morality, the right to
life of the unborn has been translated into an anti-woman stance.
In fact, the UN frequently pushes for abortion in the context of
stopping maternal mortality, thus opposition to the availability of
"safe, legal" abortion is seen as an anti-life position.
Faithful adherence to religion is
also seen as tantamount to extremism leading to violence. The
terrorism of Muslim extremism has lent itself neatly to that
thesis.
Thus a moral code or global ethic
superseding religious tenets sits well with many - a prescription
for a world religion, not calling itself a religion, but a religion
nonetheless.
"The
state of your world has been reduced by the immorality. The state of your world
is capitulating now to all of the forces of the octopus that will seek to bring
about a one-world religion and a one-world government under a supreme dictator
of evil." - Our Lady of the Roses, March 18, 1978
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