Monday September 18, 2000


CARDINAL RATZINGER CRITICIZES UN PROPOSAL FOR "NEW WORLD ORDER"

Says Christians Have Duty To Protest

ROME, Sept 18 (LSN.ca) - Writing in the Italian newspaper Avvenire, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger slammed the UN's proposals for a "New World Order" targeting for special criticism the UN's goal of depopulation. He noted that the philosophy coming from recent UN conferences and the Millennium Summit "proposes strategies to reduce the number of guests at the table of humanity, so that the presumed happiness [we] have attained will not be affected." He criticized this philosophy for "not being concerned with the care of those who are no longer productive or who can no longer hope for a determined quality of life."

Ratzinger is prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is the Vatican office responsible for protecting and promoting Catholic doctrine.

Ratzinger noted that "at the base of this New World Order" is the ideology of "women's empowerment," which erroneously sees "the principal obstacles to [a woman's] fulfillment [as] the family and maternity." The cardinal advised that "at this stage of the development of the new image of the new world, Christians - and not just them but in any case they even more than others - have the duty to protest."

For more see the Zenit News coverage at:
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=7058

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