A couple of paragraphs had to be edited from my recent interview in the Register with Cardinal Peter Turkson on the Vatican’s controversial engagement with global economic initiatives.
For the record, here they are below:
An argument critical of these initiatives is that they seem to be placing a lot of power into a very small group of people who are then forcing a certain world view on others, something that’s typical of socialism and Communism.
This type of thing has been with us for a long time. If you visit certain sites on the internet, this [theory] used to be attributed to the Illuminati [who suggested] self-appointed wise people seek to control society with whatever points of view, and now the same thing is happening with a few people with big money who seek to impose their ideas… The challenge to us is to talk about development and faith. The office is presented intentionally as faith and development, so not just development but how faith guides development. So whenever we go out and speak about our faith to others, we try to show that we’re not coming to impose our faith, but that our approach is guided by faith.
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By not talking about Christ, and putting Him clearly at the center, and instead talking generically about God and faith, do you think one can easily drift into backing a pseudo-religion, what some call “climate religion,” or a pantheistic-environmentalist religion which some say this Great Reset initiative proposes?
A dicastery of the Vatican cannot be promoting pantheism. For example, in our discourse on ecology, when we described the earth as our common home, this was taken to be pantheistic. But that’s far from the case because when we made reference to St. Francis of Assisi, who is the inspiration for all this ecological teaching of Pope Francis, St. Francis invited us to consider that we belong to a universal brotherhood because all of us have the vocation to praise God together. Everything created has a vocation to praise God, and everyone who’s involved in praising God belongs to a family of praise. So as we’re involved in praising God, and all of creation is involved in praising God, creation cannot be a deity, because deity cannot praise God.
See the full interview here.
I was just re-reading Francis invite to his Global Educational PACT for last year 2020 in the Vatican, and it is a 100%very precise humanistic pantheistic Marxist document. Me coming out from Communist Cuba in 1961 & daily mass goer, it is VERY SCARY! It is antiCatholic. T .