Vatican: Don't Donate to UNICEF

Eyewitness ^

[Notwithstanding]

Just today I was in the room where the Vatican's permanent observer to the UN (Archbishop Renato R. Martino) stated that the Vatican cannot support UNICEF because it has chosen to reach beyond its legitimate mandate (to help the world's children) and now gets mixed up in advocacy of population control, abortion, and even puts its logo on pornographic children's books that they call sex eduxation texts.

The archbishop (who has served in his post for 16 years) explained that in past years the Vatican has made a symbolic donation to UNICEF, which had always served to boost donations from Catholics worldwide - but there is no longer any such Vatican donation to UNICEF.

The archbishop did praise the UNICEF for its primary roll in ensuring that 80% of the world's kids have been innoculated against many deadly dieseases - but that was in the past, and today the Vatican cannot support UNICEF's advocacy of immoral policies.

[AAABEST]

Gosh, I haven't seen any Catholic bashers in here yet, am I on the right forum?

I'm sure the hateful slobbering morons will show up though. They can't help themselves from projecting their hatred.

[FrdmLvr]

Thanks for the link to the criticism on the UN. If my kid's school was pushing them to trick-or-treat for UNICEF, I'd print this and personally hand it to the principal, after I told him they wouldn't be participating.

[Havisham]

This is wonderful news. Thanks be to our Lord.

[nicmarlo]

Kudos to the Vatican!

[Havisham]

Notwithstanding, how extraordinary that you were present to hear this good news. I will look up your posts from now on.

[bmwcyle]

Don't give to the United Way either.

[nicmarlo]

Bump

[Eala]

Anglo-catholic bump!

[Straight Vermonter]

Courtesy of the good folks at EWTN:

UNICEF's Pornographic Sex Education

UNICEF uses pornographic sex education programs. The programs were 
purchased from the Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in 
Family Planning (JOICFP) to "educate" children. The films, produced by 
JOICFP and MEXFAM, the Mexican IPPF affiliate, are titled "The Blue Pigeon" 
and "Music For Two. "

The "Blue Pigeon" is a cartoon targeted at 10 and 12-year-old children 
which graphically depicts sexual intercourse between two children attending 
a children's picnic.

"Music for Two" depicts a young girl who imagines herself married. In her 
fantasy she sees an image of a tired, overworked and overburdened, pregnant 
woman with several children. Her husband is shown as indifferent and 
uninterested in either his wife or the children. The negative message is 
that, in marriage, women become nothing more than breeders and slaves. As 
the girl acts out her sexual fantasies with a young boy in her neighborhood 
they engage in graphically depicted sexual intercourse after outfitting 
each other with birth control devices. At the end of the film, the girl 
skips off happily, having had commitment-free intercourse without the 
prospect of a burdensome marriage (Patricia Poppe, Luis Maria Aller Atucha, 
"Integrated Project and IEC Materials in Guatemala and Mexico, " JOICFP).

[George W. Bush]

Okay, okay. I've had a long day but I'll try to oblige. No rest for the...well, you know.

The Vatican should have bought a clue decades ago about all U.N. organizations. At least they've finally awakened and seem to understand that there is no compromise possible, no deal to be made, no influence that can be wielded against the anti-Christian U.N.

The real question is: what took them so long?

[Romulus]

The real question is: what took them so long?

You sound just like Martha and Mary scolding Jesus: "Lord if you had been here, my brother would never have died." It's all His fault. It always is.

[George W. Bush]

You sound just like Martha and Mary...

No making some people happy. People complain if you don't show up, people complain if you do...

Actually, my remarks were extremely mild and well winthin the bounds of a practical political discussion.

After all, the Vatican doesn't delude itself over Planned Parenthood. It's hard to understand why they have been so slow in condemning and defunding UNICEF and other globalist organizations. You might like to be their apologists. I won't. The Vatican is basically doing something long overdue and isn't too happy having to admit what a lot of the rest of us knew all along. At least they finally wised up after having given their imprimatur to their enemies for many years. Hopefully, they'll be aggressive in denouncing the U.N. and its full agenda.

[Salvation]

Pro-Life bump!

[Aquinasfan]

It's hard to understand why they have been so slow in condemning and defunding UNICEF and other globalist organizations.

Remember how the Vatican undermined the objectives of the Cairo conference? Short memory. Sometimes it's good to remain in the UN in order to prevent worse things from happening.

[Orual]

The real question is: what took them so long?

What you said.

[Orual]

I believe the passage you are referring to is from John 11:21-27 and is quite applicable to the upcoming feast of All Souls Day. I read something that is a very good interpretation of that passage. At the time of the death of her brother Lazarus, Martha was angry. While her sister and other friends and relations mourned the death of Lazarus, Martha marched right out to the edge of town to let Jesus have a piece of her mind. "If you had come when we called you, my brother Lazarus would not be dead," she said angrily.

How often we all feel like that. It doesn't matter if someone we miss died yesterday or twenty years of yesterdays ago-sometimes we just want to let God have it. We miss them. It hurts. Things just are not the same. And if only, if only, if only.

In fact, Martha became the first person in John's gospel to proclaim that "yes," Jesus is the Christ, and even as they speak, she knows her brother lives.

[davidosborne]

Where we DON'T spend/invest/tithe our money is just as important as the places that we DO....

God Bless America!!

David

[George W. Bush]

Remember how the Vatican undermined the objectives of the Cairo conference? Short memory. Sometimes it's good to remain in the UN in order to prevent worse things from happening.

Sorry. No sale. They could have started opposing individual U.N. initiatives long before now or simply quietly discouraged their adherents from donating to UNICEF and still retained their U.N. presence and influence. Granted, the Vatican did do a lot of heavy lifting with Cairo but so did some of the rest of us who are outside the church of Rome.

[annalex]

Good.

Incidentally, the political Roman Catholicism, commonly referred to as the Vatican -- is a model supranational organization, the idea that the UN disgraced.