Vatican Backs UN Globalist Pact Timidly Objecting to Abortion and Gender Ideology

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who hatched the notorious Sino-Vatican treaty, endorses a deal that turbocharges globalism.

By Jules Gomes Published on September 26, 2024

The Vatican has thrown its weight behind a controversial United Nations declaration that seeks to turbocharge globalism while eroding national sovereignty by accelerating the drive towards Pope Francisโ€™s vision of โ€œglobal governance.โ€

Couched in alarmist rhetoric warning of โ€œrising catastrophic and existential risksโ€ the ambitiously titled document โ€œPact for the Future, Global Digital Compact, and Declaration on Future Generationsโ€ is designed to give the UN sweeping powers in โ€œtransforming global governance.โ€

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly adopted the pact on Sunday, pledging โ€œa new beginning in multilateralism,โ€ with Argentinaโ€™s newly elected president, Javier Milei, slamming the pact as the instrument of a โ€œmulti-tentacled leviathanโ€ which seeks to impose a socialist agenda on the world.

Russia and Iran are among the eight nations to oppose the treaty, which is the brainchild of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and charts a globalist roadmap promoting climate action, gender equality, and regulation of artificial intelligence.

Cardinalโ€™s Feeble Opposition to Abortion

Speaking on Monday at the UN headquarters in New York, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, a leading contender to become the next pope, hailed the pact as โ€œa source and a reason for hopeโ€ lamenting that โ€œthe sense of belonging to a single human family is fading.โ€

Parolin, who is second in command of the Vatican City State after the pope, said the Vatican wished to โ€œexpress its reservationsโ€ about concepts like โ€œsexual and reproductive healthโ€ and โ€œreproductive rightsโ€ used in the pact to describe abortion.

The cardinal noted that โ€œthe Holy See considers these terms as applying to a holistic concept of health, which embrace, each in their own way, the person in the entirety of his or her personality, mind, and body.

โ€œThe Holy See does not consider abortion or access to abortion or abortifacients as a dimension of these terms,โ€ Parolin said. โ€œWith reference to โ€˜gender,โ€™ the Holy See understands the term to be grounded in the biological sexual identity that is male or female.โ€

Conservative voices are cautioning against what they see as a dystopian attempt at a global power grab.

While not using the word โ€œmarriage,โ€ the cardinal spoke of โ€œthe achievement of personal maturity in sexuality and in the mutual love and decision-making that characterize the conjugal relationship between a man and a woman in accordance with moral norms.โ€

The pact calls for โ€œuniversal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rightsโ€ and the need to โ€œaccelerate effortsโ€ to ensure that โ€œall young people enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including immunizations and vaccinations and sexual and reproductive health.โ€

The diplomat, who is chiefly responsible for the failed Vatican-China accord โ€” a secret document that Parolin hopes will be renewed for a third time when it expires later this year โ€” also called for โ€œthe total elimination of nuclear weaponsโ€ and for a โ€œregulatory framework for AI ethics.โ€

Pope Francisโ€™s Vision of โ€œGlobal Governanceโ€

While calling for โ€œthe equality and sovereign dignity of all nations,โ€ Parolin repeatedly quoted Pope Francis, stressing the pontiffโ€™s 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti, which mentions the words โ€œglobalโ€ and โ€œglobalismโ€ 43 times and calls for the development of โ€œglobal governanceโ€ and the establishment of a โ€œglobal juridical, political, and economic order.โ€

Calling for the worldwide elimination of the death penalty in contradiction to the teaching of the Bible, the Church Fathers, and 2000 years of Catholic magisterial teaching, Fratelli Tutti dismisses any theology of โ€œdivine retributionโ€ in response to the global disasters engulfing humanity.

In May 2022, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy Seeโ€™s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organisations, repeatedly stressed Pope Francisโ€™s vision of โ€œglobal governanceโ€ in a lecture titled โ€œThe Culture of Encounter and Global Governance.โ€

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In August, Francis, a strong advocate for open borders, called for โ€œpromoting in every way a global governance of migration based on justice, fraternity, and solidarity.โ€

Meanwhile, the elitist, pro-globalist, Davos-based World Economic Forum reissued an article hailing the โ€œPact for the Futureโ€ as a โ€œlandmarkโ€ declaration consisting of 56 actions designed to โ€œturbochargeโ€ the UNโ€™s Sustainable Development Goals, โ€œbut in particular to speed progress on issues around peace and security, global governance, climate change, digital cooperation, human rights, gender, youth, and future generations.โ€

Speaking at the WEF in January, Guterres called for a โ€œnew, multipolar global orderโ€ and โ€œeffective mechanisms of global governanceโ€ including โ€œdeep reforms to global governance to manage geopolitical tensions.โ€

Conservatives Caution Against โ€œHubristicโ€ Treaty

Conservative voices, however, are cautioning against what they see as a dystopian attempt at a global power grab.

Argentinian President Javier Milei, an outspoken critic of the pontiff from Buenos Aires, blasted the UN pact as the โ€œsupranational governance model of international bureaucrats who seek to impose a certain way of life on the citizens of the world.โ€

โ€œArgentina will not back any policy that implies the restriction of individual freedoms or trade, nor the violation of the natural rights of individuals,โ€ Milei said. The libertarian economist has previously accused the pope of showing โ€œgreat affinity with dictators like Castro and Maduroโ€ and being โ€œon the side of bloody dictatorships.โ€

The pact โ€œwill join a long list of U.N. declarations that have served as diplomatic and rhetorical cudgels with which to attack the United States,โ€ warned the Heritage Foundation, calling the declaration โ€œhubristicโ€ and โ€œunrealisticโ€ as it โ€œmerely divert(s)โ€ the UN and โ€œfurther erode(s) its reputation.โ€

โ€œThe pact is an unwise effort to bestow additional responsibilities on an organization that is unable to manage its current remit,โ€ researcher and author Brett Schaefer wrote in a Heritage Foundation piece titled โ€œThe U.S. Must Oppose the U.N. Pact for the Future.โ€

The โ€œmost egregious problemโ€ with the pact, Schaefer observed, is its failure to grapple with the fact that the UN has not fulfilled the purposes in its own Charter, like โ€œmaintaining international peace and security, respecting self-determination, coordinating governments to work toward common ends, and promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms โ€” for the simple reason that most member states themselves oppose them.โ€

Schaefer also pointed out how Guterres โ€œhas been traversing the globe to issue dire warnings of the threatโ€ of climate change, โ€œclaiming that by failing to act, โ€˜humanity has opened the gates to hellโ€™ and unleashed extreme weather events,โ€ even though โ€œthese hyperbolic declarations are not supported by the UNโ€™s own reportsโ€ and โ€œfollow in a long line of proclamations of climate catastrophe that have failed to materialize.โ€

Tim Hincliffe, editor of The Sociable, warned that the pact is โ€œpaving the way for a digital gulag where everyone is connected to the internet and assigned a digital ID, while those who question UN narratives are to be crushed for spewing hate speech and disinformation.โ€

Pope Francisโ€™s repeated appeals for a โ€œglobal governance,โ€ which many popular Catholic commentators have interpreted as a call for a โ€œone-world government,โ€ especially following the hysteria of the COVID-19 pandemic, have also been picked up by academics.

Writing in a special 2024 issue of the Journal of Moral Theology, Catholic theologian and ethicist Kevin Ahern argues that the โ€œCatholic Church has proven to be a vocal supporter of more robust forms of global governanceโ€ despite Christian โ€œpopulistsโ€ and โ€œnationalistsโ€ who โ€œoppose efforts that might limit the power and privileges of their own countries.โ€

Ahern sees the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritainโ€™s vision of โ€œglobal governanceโ€ as a forerunner of Francisโ€™s โ€œmore pastoralโ€ plea for a new world order, despite criticisms from political theorist Emily Butler Finleyโ€™s warning that such utopianism underestimates sin and marks Catholicismโ€™s turn โ€œaway from beliefs previously deemed central to the faith.โ€

 

Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral.

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