Posted on 02/13/2024 8:39:47 AM PST by ebb tide
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The controversial member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Mariana Mazzucato, told the academy yesterday that society’s “common good” must be based on the United Nations’ pro-abortion Sustainable Development Goals and that Christianity’s teaching contributed to “climate change.”
Mazzucato’s striking statements came during her February 12 presentation at the annual assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), of which she has been an ordinary member since 2022. Delivering a short talk on the “common good,” Mazzucato presented a view of the common good as being entirely divorced from any principles of religion, or the supernatural end of man, while also attacking the teaching of Christianity in terms of a perceived impact on the climate.
Asked about how society should agree on what the common good is, in order to build the new “framework” which Mazzucato was proposing, she pointed to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the foundation.
“Begin with the SDG’s,” she stated. The “principle of subsidiarity is key,” she added, before continuing. “The first answer to the question is the SDG’s, and we should take them as seriously as war,” when money is made or found, she said.
By employing themes and words drawn from Catholic social teaching, such as the “common good” and “subsidiarity,” Mazzucato re-oriented these concepts into a new manner, based entirely on an irreligious grounding and the principles of morality set by the U.N.
The U.N. SDGs – comprising 17 goals and 169 targets – are linked with Agenda 2030 and are fundamentally pro-contraception and pro-abortion. Goal #5.6 is the goal to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls,” and includes the following aim: “Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights,” a phraseology commonly used to refer to abortion and contraception.
READ: Vatican reaffirms commitment to Paris Climate Agreement despite inclusion of pro-abortion agenda
Such support for the SDG’s is not surprising. Mazzucato is pro-abortion and additionally was part of the U.N. Committee for Development Policy from 2019 through 2021. Her alignment with such globalist entities is part of her normal operations, being a regular contributor to the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Furthermore, Mazzucato is not alone in the Vatican in citing the SDG’s as a foundation of a new global structure. In recent years Pope Francis has repeatedly promoted the SDG’s, even calling upon global religions to orient their work to the furthering of the SDG’s.
Francis has also launched his own initiative with the U.N. and with globalist corporations in order to promote a new “economic system” of capitalism and ensure the achievement of the SDG’s. Indeed, his speeches and writings on economics have drawn from Mazzucato’s own works.
Among other aspects, the Pope’s partnerships promote “sustainable lifestyles,” “gender equality,” and “global citizenship,” while the SDGs themselves promote “sexual and reproductive health services.” The new “Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican” is fundamentally committed to promote “environmental, social, and governance measures” in order to “achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.”
Such deepening ties with globalist corporations and leaders lends further credence to beliefs that Pope Francis is aligned with the call for a “Great Reset.” He has referenced a “supranational common good,” and said that “there is need for a special legally constituted authority capable of facilitating its implementation.”
The final question from the PAV assembly following Mazzucato’s talk was as surprising a line of questioning as its answer was striking. “Did Christianity contribute to climate change by preaching our superiority to animals?” she was asked.
Mazzucato answered: “I don’t think it’s just Christianity, I think globally we just messed up about putting that common good at the center,” she said.
READ: Why the Catholic Church should be opposing the Paris climate agreement
The self-described atheist cited a recent workshop she participated in, alongside leading international politicians, in which they examined “what would it look like if not only people were at the U.N. general assembly, but also rivers, forests, plants, animals.”
Having already noted that “all crises are interconnected,” Mazzucato re-issued her calls for an international “different framework” based on her description of the common good as born from the SDG’s, which she described as essential if society wished to “do better.”
While modern Catholic texts on the common good have tended to portray the common good as akin to an irreligious form of social justice – even as presented in the modern catechism – the Church’s tradition presents a differing teaching.
Writing in De Regno, St. Thomas Aquinas notes that the common good of society cannot be divorced from, or outrightly reject, the supernatural aspect of life:
It is, however, clear that the end of a multitude gathered together is to live virtuously. For men form a group for the purpose of living well together, a thing which the individual man living alone could not attain. Now, the good life is a virtuous life; therefore, virtuous life is the end for which men gather together… Yet through virtuous living man is further ordained to a higher end, which consists in the enjoyment of God, as we have said above. Consequently, since society must have the same end as the individual man, it is not the ultimate end of an assembled multitude to live virtuously, but through virtuous living to attain to the possession of God.
Both at the Vatican press conference and in her own speech for the PAV, Mazzucato’s words appeared to echo those of Pope Francis, the Pope who – as she stated more than once yesterday – serves as an inspiration for her. In turn, Francis’ words closely follow the sentiments expressed by key globalist and founder of the WEF, Klaus Schwab, whose proposed anti-Catholic “Great Reset” is underpinned by a focus on a “green” financial agenda, as he mentions the “withdrawal of fossil-fuel subsidies,” and a new financial system based on “investments” which advance “equality and sustainability,” and the building of a “‘green’ urban infrastructure.”
READ: Vatican official at Davos says the Church is implementing the World Economic Forum agenda
Francis has signaled his intimacy with Schwab by sending an address to the WEF now five times in his 10-year pontificate, and allowing an annual Vatican roundtable at the Davos-based annual WEF conference.
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Antipope Bergolio really hates the Christian Faith.
The common good requires your extermination Comrade. Buck up!
I’m so old I remember when even us Protestants thought the Vatican promoted Christianity.
It was for “the common good” that Jesus was crucified. But it was still unjust, immoral and against all things holy.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen so many nutty/objectionable words crammed into a single headline... and they left out the ‘climate change’ part until later.
Atheist? No no.....modernist as Sir Humphrey explains.
James Hacker:
Humphrey, what’s a Modernist in the Church of England?
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Ah, well, the word “Modernist” is code for non-believer.
James Hacker:
You mean an atheist?
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
No, Prime Minister. An atheist clergyman couldn’t continue to draw his stipend. So, when they stop believing in God, they call themselves “Modernists”.
James Hacker:
How could the Church of England suggest an atheist as Bishop of Bury St Edmunds?
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Well, very easily. The Church of England is primarily a social organization, not a religious one.
James Hacker:
Is it?
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Oh yes. It’s part of the rich social fabric of this country. So bishops need to be the sorts of chaps who speak properly and know which knife and fork to use. The sort of people one can look up to.
Another good reason to disband the U.N.
Another good reason to disband the U.N.
I agree.
You can lump in Methodist, Presbyterians and many Baptist congregations in that statement.
The Adversary has made great strides in the last 70 years in the corruption of men.
I can’t think of any Christian sect that has not suffered corruption.
The Adversary does not take vacations, does not take breaks and does not sleep in his efforts to destroy mankind.
We don’t need to disband the UN
We just need to stop contributing to its funding.
The rest will take care of itself
The reason the Methodists were able to leave the hedonist UMC general conference is the same reason the Baptists were able to fire their president. There are enough good, sincere Christians in those churches to tell their leaders that they're sticking to Jesus like glue and if the leaders keep getting in the way then the leaders have to go. The Baptists handled it by firing their president. The Methodists were unable to ditch the leaders in their general conference; so entire Methodist churches left the general conference.
That's how important that righteousness is to the Christians in those churches. My prayer is that there's enough Catholics with that same dedication to Jesus more than denomination. Can the good Catholics tell their commie "pope" and the other hedonists leaders in the RCC that either they go or the good guys are leaving the RCC?
The Baptists who did that and won the argument didn't quit being Baptist (i.e. protestants believing in calvinism, which I disagree with but it doesn't matter). The Methodists that did that didn't quit being Methodists (i.e. protestants believing in arminianism). Can't Catholics do the same? Can't Catholics still believe in transubstantiation during the eucharist without requiring a member of the hedonist clique RCC clergy being there to bless the elements? Does a Catholic's belief in purgatory and remission of sins allow the remission of sin without a RCC clergy to be there to bless the sin away?
If the answer is "no", that good Catholics can't be Catholic without their hedonist clergy then the good Catholics have lost the battle. As long as the control-freak leaders know that you think you need them, they can get away with bastardizing the gospel.
But if the Catholics can cross the step of telling their leaders they no longer believe in "apostolic secession" to be the absolute thing they've been told over and over it is, and that the leaders (clergy) need the lay folks more than the lay folks need the clergy, and that you're going to quit using terms like "clergy" and "laity" because the RCC leaders have abused that kind of social status fake distinctions way too much ... then there's a chance the RCC can be rescued.
Notice not once am I saying that Catholics need to be Protestant like me. I'm not talking about the 5 solas or anything like that. But what is required is that the good guys in the RCC tell the "clergy" that you're sticking to Jesus like glue and if the clergy gets in the way then the clergy has to go.
The Roman Catholic Church has survived bad Popes in the past and will survive Francis.
A well formed Catholic knows that the Pope can not change doctrine.
I fear for the RCC in the counter-reformation era. The bad popes in the past occurred when the RCC was more conciliatory (in the past the popes who tried to flex too much authority had it reigned in at the next Council). The Jesuits are a relatively new order (about 4 centuries old) within the RCC that was formed shortly before the Council of Trent and, IMHO, was given much power in the teachings of the RCC because they were all about papal supremacy (countering the Protestants criticisms of the pope). Thus, unlike the RCC in the past, the RCC as we know it for the past 4 centuries is too used to the pope being the see-all, do-all above all criticism.
Will this be enough to shake up the RCC and bring things back more to right? Or are we entering yet another era where yet another heresy is going to be taught as "truth" "tradition" as though it's always been? For example, what we call "traditional Latin mass" isn't some 2,000 year old tradition like they make it out to be. It was codified at the Council of Trent in the 16th century (again, trying really hard to be different from Protestants). Can you find early Catholic catechisms written before the Protestant Reformation that mentions the pope? These are examples of teachings that Catholics before then would have never thought would have been taught for centuries as truth like Catholics today hear it.
So will future Catholics quote the glories of gay hedonism as though it's always been part of "truth" "tradition"? Or will this be the moment that Catholics tell the pope and his supporting clergy that truth comes from the Bible and anything they teach will be tested by that? (see tagline)
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