Pope builds his New World Order as he accepts global Cardinals
The Unhived Mind [UHM]
Pope Benedict XVI appoints six non-European cardinals
David Willey in Rome said the Pope “wanted to stress that the Catholic Church is a church for the whole of humanity”
24 November 2012 Last updated at 11:25
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20473929
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed six priests from non-European countries to be cardinals, at a service in the Vatican’s St Peter’s Basilica.
The cardinals, the closest aides of the Pope, come from the Philippines, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Colombia and the US.
Analysts say it is unusual for the Pope to select only non-Europeans.
The Pope told the congregation that the Catholic Church belongs to the whole human race, not just one group, and was a church for all peoples.
Those being presented at the consistory, or cardinal-making ceremony, were:
US Archbishop James Harvey, 63, prefect of the papal household
Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai, 72
Indian Archbishop Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, 53, head of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Nigerian Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja, 68
Colombian Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez of Bogota, 70
Philippine Archbishop Luis Tagle of Manila, 55
All six new cardinals are younger than 80 and therefore will likely be eligible to vote for a new Pope when the current pontiff dies.
Three are from countries with large Muslim populations – India, Lebanon and Nigeria.
Cheers broke out among the supporters of each cardinal-designate as the Pope presented them with the gold rings at the consistory and the red hats and vestments, which symbolise their readiness to shed their blood to defend their Christian faith.
Inter-faith dialogue
Pope Benedict has previously faced criticism for appointing mainly Europeans as cardinals, despite the Church’s estimate that less than a quarter of the world’s Catholics live in Europe.
The appointments aim to better reflect the international character of the Church
In February, he created 22 new cardinals including 16 Europeans, seven of whom were Italian.
By adding six non-Europeans to the number of 114 cardinal electors, the Pope has slightly shifted the geographical demographic of the body which will ultimately choose his successor, though Europeans still make up the majority, at 51%.
Cardinal-designate John Onaiyekan is the archbishop of Abuja in Nigeria, where Christians and Muslims each make up about half the population, and dialogue between the two faiths is increasingly important, says the BBC’s David Willey in Rome.
He says the Pope’s elevation of Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al Rahi, the head of the Maronite Church – an ancient Lebanese Christian Church in communion with Rome – is seen as a sign of Vatican support for religious diversity in Lebanon.
The Pope has called on Christians to remain in the Middle East despite rising Islamism, and during a visit to Beirut in September, said Lebanon was a model for the region.
Before Saturday’s ceremony, Pope Benedict met Lebanese President Michel Sleiman. A representative of the Shia militant group Hezbollah, which is part of the Lebanese government, was also attending Saturday’s ceremony.
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TheUnhivedMind on November 24, 2012 at 2:04 pm said:
Pope calls for a new world order
UN’s failure to halt US war on Iraq leads to new initiative
John Hooper in Rome
The Guardian, Friday 2 January 2004 01.05 GMT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jan/02/catholicism.religion
Pope John Paul II launched one of the most important diplomatic initiatives of his long papacy yesterday when he called for a new international order to replace the one that emerged from the second world war.
Though he did not offer a detailed plan, his words appeared to show he wanted the UN replaced in light of its failure to block the use of force by America in Iraq.
The Pope called last month for the reform of world institutions and deplored any failure to respect international law. But in a sermon during a mass at St Peter’s in Rome yesterday, he went much further, referring to the UN as if it were already a part of the past.
“More than ever, we need a new international order that draws on the experience and results achieved in these years by the United Nations,” he declared during a service to mark the Roman Catholic Church’s World Day of Peace, celebrated on January 1.
He was flanked at the altar by two of his most senior international representatives: the secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, and the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Renato Martino, who outraged many Americans last month by expressing “pity” and “compassion” for the captured Saddam Hussein.
The congregation included the heads of all the diplomatic missions accredited to the Holy See.
In his homily, the Pope said the new world order he wanted “would be able to provide solutions to the problems of today … based on the dignity of human beings, an integrated development of society, solidarity between rich and poor nations, and on the sharing of resources and the extraordinary results of scientific and technological progress.”
The Pope believes that not enough of these goals are being achieved with the present system of international organisations that emerged in the late 40s, including the UN, the IMF and the World Bank.
But the central issue, seen from the Vatican’s point of view, is the growing irrelevance of a painstakingly constructed body of international law which is being ignored by the US administration during its “war on terror”.
Cardinal Martino first signalled the Pope’s disquiet last month when he presented a document written by the pontiff to mark the World Day of Peace. Without naming the US, the Pope warned: “Peace and international law are closely linked to each other: law favours peace”. He also pointedly observed that “democratic governments know well that the use of force against terrorists cannot justify a renunciation of the principles of the rule of law”.
The Pope acknowledged that current international law was ill-suited to dealing with rebels or terrorists and called for new treaties and reform of the UN. But yesterday’s appeal was for an altogether more sweeping change.
With observer status at the UN and a network of diplomats covering 174 countries, the Holy See is in a strong position to lobby for its goals.
Its concerns over US attitudes are unlikely to be assuaged by the latest statement of policy from President George Bush’s secretary of state, Colin Powell. In an article for the New York Times yesterday, Mr Powell said: “President Bush’s vision is clear and right: America’s formidable power must continue to be deployed on behalf of principles that are simultaneously American, but that are also beyond and greater than ourselves.”
Senior members of the Catholic Church of England and Wales endorsed the Pope’s comments. “We welcome the words of the Vatican and fully support what the Holy See says in this,” said Ollie Wilson, a spokesman for the Catholic media office.
They cast doubt however on whether he had meant to imply that the UN had had its day and should be replaced.
Peter Jennings, press secretary to the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Birmingham, said: “The Pope is a great advocate of the UN.”
Please remember that the New World Order is in fact the Temporal Power of the Holy See.
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