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It had little to do with the Amazon and nothing to do with evangelising the indigenous people in the region. It was not even about female ordinations or the disturbing emergence of Pachamama. What then was the Amazonian synod really about? History is comprised of events and processes. While events are more noticeable, it is the underlying current of ideas which cause and connect the events. The current flowing beneath the surface of the Amazon synod, and which still steers the Bark of Peter, is globalisation. It is the agenda of powerful international institutions inspired by Marxist and Masonic dreams of a utopian one world family of nations, under one government and united in one religion. For this global one world order (which without God will be disorder) to come about the universal Church needs to be dismembered and her spiritual and moral authority dissolved in the one world power.
Since the beginning of this pontificate, advocates of globalism have enjoyed a growing influence in the Vatican. They speak regularly at events organised by the Holy See on the “critical” problems the UN says are facing humanity today. They preach against ecological “sins” – overpopulation, pollution and climate change – and hold out the promise of a happy, fulfilling life for everyone on earth. In this ideology, human suffering has no value and eternity very little relevance. By exploiting synodal proceedings, globalist ideas have been woven into Church documents in an effort to provide moral legitimacy for the agenda of saving the world from mankind. All this differs radically from the Church’s God-given “agenda” to make disciples of all nations and teach them all that Christ has commanded. (Mt. 28:18-20)
Tragically, the successor of Peter has himself rejected the universal character of the Church as
the supreme moral and spiritual authority. In May 2019, Pope Francis called for a supra-national body to enforce United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and “climate change” policies.1 Then, in September, during an inflight press conference on his return from an apostolic visit to Africa, the Holy Father said that it is our “duty” to “obey international institutions”, such as the United Nations and the European Union.2 And, the day after the Amazon synod closed, the Pontifical Academy for Sciences, members of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and governors of the Pan-Amazonian region signed a common declaration pledging to implement the UN SDGs in the Amazon.3
WHAT ARE THE UN SDGs AND WHY IS THERE A PROBLEM? The Sustainable Development Goals, approved by the UN on 25 September 2015, consist of 17 goals and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030. While some of these goals may seem laudable, if utopian – such as ending poverty and hunger in the world, establishing equality, ensuring good health and education for everyone, everywhere by 2030 – others include targets that call for “universal access to sexual and reproductive health”.
The term “sexual and reproductive health” is commonly used by UN bodies, and by many national governments and international agencies to refer, inter alia, to access to abortion and contraception, including contraception that can have an abortifacient mode of action.
The definition of this phrase accepted by UN member states (with reservations from a number of nations) is that found in the Programme of Action of the United Nations’ International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in 1994.4 Contraception is considered an integral part of “reproductive health”;5 it also states that “abortion” is a “basic component of reproductive health care services”.6 The World Health Organisation (WHO), an agency of the United Nations, also considers abortion to be an integral part of “sexual and reproductive health”. The WHO states as part of its work in the area of “sexual and reproductive health”, abortion when necessary, should be “accessible and safe”.7 Under the guise of “universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services”, UN bodies have worked unceasingly for a radical increase in the use of contraception and access to abortion worldwide.
Goal 3 of the SDGs aims to: “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.” Target 7 of this goal calls for states to: “ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes”.
Goal 5 seeks to: “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.” Target 6 of this goal commits states to: “ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences”.8
Through these targets “comprehensive sexuality education programmes” which corrupt children and alienate them from their parents, are also relentlessly promoted. The course set by the UN in this area is then pursued by national governments and the collaboration of the Vatican is translated into the direction taken by the local bishops’ conferences. This is illustrated perfectly in the UK by the passage of the Children and Social Work Act 2017. One aim of this legislation, which has made Relationships Education compulsory throughout the school years and Sex Ed-
ucation compulsory in secondary schools, including Catholic schools, is to ensure that school children know “how to get further advice, including how and where to access confidential sexual and reproductive health advice and treatment”, that is, how to obtain contraception and abortion without their parents’ knowledge. They will also be taught how to pursue the sexual lifestyle of their choice in full accordance with LGBT ideology. As the Holy See has proclaimed its support for the SDGs, is it surprising that bishops in Britain have welcomed the government’s compulsory sex education curriculum?9 Yet the corruption of our children through the anti-life and anti-family sex education programmes is arguably the worst weapon used by those promoting the culture of death. As Our Saviour taught us: “And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Mt. 10:28) HOW DID THE AMAZON SYNOD ENDORSE THE UN AGENDA? Through its intercultural, inter-religious and ecological emphasis, the Amazon synod proved to be a major vehicle to advance the UN agenda within the Vatican.
As with the UN, the main sessions of the synod were supplemented by side events. At the UN the parallel programme is where the pro-life and pro-family groups try to influence the negotiations in spite of the efforts of organisations like International Planned Parenthood to shut them out. UN envoys also set up parallel events in the Vatican, although by no means seeking to challenge the synod’s proceedings. These events, which place the deliberations of the synod in a wider context, include:
First Summit of Amazonian Governors On 28 October, the day after the synod closed, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, members of a UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), and governors of the Pan-Amazonian region (all from socialist parties) signed a common declaration to enforce the SDGs in the Amazon.
Present at the meeting was Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, a special advisor to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the SDGs and the head of the Sustainable Solutions Network, which played a central role in drafting the SDGs. In his book The Age of Sustainable Development, published in March 2015, Sachs argued for reducing the birth rate in Africa and called for governments to encourage their populations to lower family size by promoting birth control and providing access to free or low-cost contraception and family planning.10 In 2011 he called for the Nigerian government “to work towards attaining a maximum of three children [per family].”11 His 2008 book, Commonwealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, argued that abortion was a cost-effective way to eliminate “unwanted children” and reduce a country’s total fertility rates “by as much as half a child on average.”12
Prof. Sachs has given around twenty-five talks in the Vatican during the current pontificate. Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, has justified the role increasingly played by Sachs in Holy See events. Apparently oblivious to the warning from St James that: “whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all” (Jm. 2:10), the Archbishop has insisted that Sachs does not express his pro-abortion opinions on these occasions.13
The 28 October declaration claims that the world’s “climate and humanitarian crisis” demands “rapid, integrated and urgent action”. Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register reported that the terms “sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights” were not mentioned in the governors’ dec-
laration: “Instead, all the pledges are temporal in nature relating to the environment, science and socioeconomics.”14 However, as another source in Pentin’s report also implied, what is important for the globalist powers, is to forge collaboration in the areas such as climate change, deemed “critical” by both the UN and the pope. Once there is a co-operation in these well-funded areas, the diminishing number of policy differences can be dealt with in due course.
Pentin also noted that during the 28 October meeting, “the governors expressed a wish to partner with the Church and any organisation that sought to preserve the Amazon”.15 A partnership on such terms can no doubt be extended to bodies that differ diametrically from the Catholic Church in their goals and values. For example, Diane Montagna reports that the donors and partners of the Amazonian branch of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN-A) include the pro-abortion, pro-gender theory Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.16 Pentin revealed that the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), which effectively ran the Amazon Synod, accepted generous funding from the pro-abortion and pro-gender theory Ford Foundation that has Cecile Richards, the former CEO of Planned Parenthood, on its board of trustees.17 The Ford Foundation, not surprisingly, features in the partnership platform of a number of UN initiatives set up to implement the SDGs.
H.E. Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, the relator general of the Amazon synod and president of REPAM and H.E. Cardinal Pedro R Barreto, its vice president, were also present at the 28 October meeting.
A week later, perhaps coincidentally or perhaps not, 11,000 scientists endorsed an article declaring that the world population must be stabilised and then reduced because a “climate emergency” threatens “the fate of humanity”. The article, written by the Alliance of World Scientists and published in BioScience, stated: “Still increasing by roughly 80 million people per year, or more than 200,000 per day...the world population must be stabilised - and, ideally, gradually reduced - within a framework that ensures social integrity”.18 Claire Chretien of LifeSiteNews also pointed out that the authors cite John Bongaarts, a population control activist, who spoke at the Vatican in 2017: “There are proven and effective policies that strengthen human rights while lowering fertility rates and lessening the impacts of population growth on GHG emissions and biodiversity loss. These policies make family-planning services available to all people, remove barriers to their access and achieve full gender equity, including primary and secondary education as a global norm for all, especially girls and young women.”
Special guests at the Amazon synod Joining Jeffrey Sachs as a special invitee to the Amazon synod was the former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who has promoted the “right to abortion” worldwide19 and violated the UN consensus that the abortion issue should be left to individual nations when he criticised the lack of “safe abortion” in war-zones. Among other invitees was Prof. Hans J. Schellnhuber, a climate alarmist and promoter of one world government, who advised Pope Francis when he wrote Laudato si and was also on the panel presenting the encyclical in the Vatican.
Brazilian deputies’ meeting with the synod fathers On 14 October, a group of Brazilian bishops received a delegation of leftist and communist politicians, invited to Rome by REPAM, for a parallel meeting. Among these Brazilian deputies was Jandira Feghali, known for her strong pro-abortion views and even for opposing legislation criminalising infanticide among some Amazonian tribes.20 Feghali also participated at the 28 October meeting.21
Vatican youth symposium Halfway through the synod, the Holy See and the SDSN hosted a Vatican youth symposium at the headquarters of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. This conference, which reportedly took place in the Vatican for the fourth consecutive year, was set up to discuss the promotion of the SDGs. Diane Montagna of LifeSiteNews pointed out that the SDSNYouth website features a young lawyer boasting of travelling around India promoting contraception and abortion.22 Montagna also reported that the meeting, which was opened by Bishop Sorondo and Jeffrey Sachs, highlighted the important role education will play in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. SDSN has already established a wide network
that targets universities and schools through its Global Schools Program, she wrote.
“Global Pact” for “new humanism” In September, just before the synod, Pope Francis announced his initiative for a “Global Pact” to create a “new humanism”. The theme of this event, to take place at the Vatican on 14 May 2020, is Reinventing the Global Educational Alliance. According to the Vatican, the Pope is inviting representatives of the main religions, international organisations and various humanitarian institutions, as well as key figures from the world of politics, economics and academia, and prominent athletes, scientists and sociologists. Diane Montagna of LifeSiteNews reported that participants will sign a “Global Pact on Education” so as to “hand on to younger generations a united and fraternal common home”. In a video message to launch the initiative, Pope Francis quoted an aphorism often used by Hillary Clinton: “It takes a village to raise a child”, and asserted the need to create an “educational village”, in which “all people, according to their respective roles, share the task of forming a network of open, human relationships”.23 The Pope has tasked the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education with organising the Global Educational Alliance initiative.
Vatican endorsement of the SDGs prior to the Amazon Synod Pope Francis addressed the UN General Assembly on 25 September 2015, on the day the SDGs were formally approved. He said: “The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the World Summit, which opens today, is an important sign of hope”.24 On 1 September 2016, Pope Francis gave his strong endorsement to the SDGs, stating he was “gratified that in September 2015 the nations of the world adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, and that, in December 2015, they approved the Paris Agreement on climate change”.25 Since that date he has publicly endorsed on the SDGs on a number of other occasions.
His support for the SDGs is reflected by that offered by various other organs of the Holy See, and especially by Pontifical Academy of Science (PAS) and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS). These bodies have hosted regular events promoting the agenda of the SDGs, at which key proponents of abortion and population control, including SDG drafter Jeffrey Sachs, have played a leading role.
Incidentally, at the time of its publication, Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato si was welcomed with great enthusiasm by Jeffrey Sachs and other globalist agents, who claimed that the encyclical “made possible” the passage of the SDGs in September 2015, as well as the Paris Climate Agreement in December 2015 that welcomes the SDGs.26
CONCLUSION If just one event could summarise the Amazon synod and its underlying current it would probably be the celebration and renewal of the little-known Pact of the Catacombs on 20 October. This pact, made at the close of Vatican II in 1965, marked the beginning of liberation theology and links today’s crisis with the revolutionary processes of the past. As Julio Loredo of Tradition, Family and Property explained to the National Catholic Register, one of the main tenets of liberation theology is “precisely the fusion between faith and politics”.27 Liberation theology, which seeks the eradication of poverty, not the sanctification of the poor, ran like a red thread through the synod. Its early proponents went on to apply its method to environmental issues. Loredo said “many of the synod’s main players”, such as Cardinal Hummes, the synod’s relator general, and Bishop Erwin Kräutler, a principal synod organiser, “come from Marxist liberation theology” and that Leonardo Boff, a former priest and a “main source of inspiration” for Laudato si, has “never disavowed Marxism.”28
The new world order does not attempt to destroy religion by violence as the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century did. You can be Catholic, as long as you recognise the “real problems” dictated by the UN and commit to their global solution. The degree to which these problems are genuine is irrelevant. What matters is that in the eyes of the world they are an existential threat that demands the exercise of global power.
There is nothing that the universal Church, the Bride of Christ, can learn or benefit from cooperating with the globalist powers of this world. There is much, however, that advocates of one world order can gain from this “partnership”; the annihilation of Catholicism. Not one of the temporal problems
ever faced by humanity – poverty, hunger, disease, or natural disasters, tragic as these are – compares to the eternal problems caused by mortal sin. There is only one institution on earth which can save men from the eternal consequences of sin and that is the Catholic Church. The betrayal of her God-given mission to preach the Gospel and baptise all nations will only make the enemies of the Church rejoice. And there is only one critical goal for every Catholic: to grow in love for Jesus Christ so we can dwell with Him for all eternity in Heaven. “For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?”(Mt. 8:36)
ENDNOTES:
1. Diane Montagna, “Pope Francis calls for new ‘supranational’ authorities to enforce UN goals”, LifeSiteNews, 2 May 2019; https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/popefrancis-calls-for-new-supranational-authorities-to-enforce-UN-goals 2. Pope Francis’ in-flight press conference: full text, Vatican News, 10 September 2019; https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-09/pope-francis-inflight-press-conference-full-text.html 3. Diane Montagna, “Vatican academy promotes UN’s pro-abortion ‘sustainable development’ agenda in Amazon”, LifeSiteNews, 6 November 2019; https://www. lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-academy-promotes-uns-pro-abortion-sustainable-development-agenda-in-amazon 4. United Nations, Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action, (Cairo, 1994). 5. See paragraphs 7.8, 7.10, 7.13, 7.23, 7.25, 12.15 and 13.14 of the document. 6. Paragraph 13.14 (b) states that “abortion (as specified in paragraph 8.25)” is a “basic component of reproductive health care services”. Paragraph 8.25 accepts abortion in jurisdictions where it is “not against the law”, in which circumstances it “should be safe”, and acknowledges that in some cases there may be a “need for abortion”. This paragraph is restated in chapter IV, section C, paragraph 106.k of the 1995 United Nations’ Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The Beijing Platform for Action also promotes contraception, as can be seen, for example, in 106.u of the above quoted section. 7. http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Life-stages/sexual-and-reproductive-health/areas-of-work/abortion 8. UN General Assembly, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 21 October 2015. The text of the Sustainable Development Goals can be downloaded at: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/ RES/70/1&Lang=E 9. For the full account of how the Bishops of England and Wales have supported and promoted the government’s Children and Social Work Act, see Dr Tom Rogers, “Compulsory relationships and sex education – how Catholic Church Officials have betrayed parents and children”, Calx Mariae, Issue 4. Spring 2019. 10. Jeffrey Sachs, The Age of Sustainable Development, Kindle Edition, (2015), p. 159. 11. “Nigeria population: Sachs’ three-baby plan ‘tricky’”, British Broadcasting Corporation, 24 May 2011; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13530649 12. Jeffrey Sachs, Commonwealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, Kindle Edition (2011), pp. 189-90. 13. Diane Montagna, “Speaker tells Vatican conference: Reducing population is best solution to climate ‘crisis’”, LifeSiteNews, 16 November 2017, https://www. lifesitenews.com/news/speaker-tells-vatican-conference-reducing-population-is-best-solution-to-cl 14. Edward Pentin, “Pontifical Academy of Sciences Embraces UN’s ‘Sustainable Development’ Agenda”, National Catholic Register, 4 November 2019; http:// www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/pontifical-academy-of-sciences-embraces-uns-sustainable-development-agenda#When:2019-11-5 15. Edward Pentin, “Pontifical Academy of Sciences Embraces UN’s ‘Sustainable Development’ Agenda”, National Catholic Register, 4 November 2019. 16. Diane Montagna, “Vatican academy promotes UN’s pro-abortion ‘sustainable development’ agenda in Amazon”, LifeSiteNews, 6 November 2019; https://www. lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-academy-promotes-uns-pro-abortion-sustainable-development-agenda-in-amazon 17. Edward Pentin, “Pro-Abortion Ford Foundation Major Funder of Key Synod Organizations”, National Catholic Register, 17 October 2019; http://www.ncregister. com/daily-news/ford-foundation 18. Claire Chretien, “11,000 scientists demand population control because of ‘climate emergency’”, LifeSiteNews, 5 November 2019; https://www.lifesitenews.com/ news/11000-scientists-demand-population-control-because-of-climate-emergency 19. In September 2010 at the Human Rights Council in Geneva and Navanethem Pillay, the then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, launched a report “on discrimination against women, in law and practice, and how the issue is addressed throughout the United Nations human rights system”. In that report they called for the policing of nations worldwide to “address the refusal of physicians to perform legal abortions”. 20. Edward Pentin, “Key Questions About Brazilian Politicians’ Synod Visit Remain Unanswered”, National Catholic Register, 25 October 2019; http://www.ncregister. com/blog/edward-pentin/key-questions-about-brazilian-politicians-synod-visit-remain-unanswered 21. Diane Montagna, “Vatican academy promotes UN’s pro-abortion ‘sustainable development’ agenda in Amazon”, LifeSiteNews, 6 November 2019; https://www. lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-academy-promotes-uns-pro-abortion-sustainable-development-agenda-in-amazon 22. Diane Montagna, “Vatican hosts youth conference with pro-abortion UN activists”, LifeSiteNews, 8 November 2019; https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vaticanhosts-youth-conference-with-pro-abortion-un-activists 23. Diane Montagna, “Pope Francis invites religious, political leaders to sign ‘Global Pact’ for ‘new humanism’”, LifeSiteNews, 13 September 2019; https://www. lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-global-education-pact 24. Address of the Holy Father, Meeting with the members of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization, 25 September 2019; http://www.vatican. va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/september/documents/papa-francesco_20150925_onu-visita.html 25. Voice of the Family, “Pope Francis ‘gratified’ by UN goals that demand ‘universal access to sexual and reproductive health’”, 2 September 2016; http://voiceofthefamily.com/pope-francis-gratified-by-un-goals-that-demand-universal-accessto-sexual-and-reproductive-health/ 26. Lianne Laurence, “Pope’s climate encyclical ‘made possible’ passage of pro-abortion SDGs: UN leader”, LifeSiteNews, 22 July 2016; https://www.lifesitenews. com/news/popes-climate-encyclical-made-possible-passage-of-pro-abortionsdgs-un-lead 27. Edward Pentin, “The Political Pan-Amazon Synod”, National Catholic Register, 15 November 2019; http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-political-pan-amazon-synod 28. Edward Pentin, “The Political Pan-Amazon Synod”, National Catholic Register, 15 November 2019.
