-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Jack Kolb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Pope to meet with Haider Date: Saturday, December 16, 2000 8:56 PM POPE SCHMOOZES WITH FASCIST SYMPATHIZER, DENOUNCES EVILS OF "ATHEISM, SECULARISM, INDIVIDUALISM" As thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Rome in protest, the Vatican confirmed that Pope John Paul II will go ahead with plans to meet tomorrow with Austrian far-right political leader Joeg Haider. Haider arrived this afternoon in Rome, and was promptly escorted to a private hotel near the Vatican under heavy police security. His visit with the pontiff, slated for Saturday morning, comes as tension rises between Italy and Austria over statements made by Haider critical of Italian policies on immigration. Haider, who has said that he admired many of the policies of Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler, is former leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party which is now a junior partner in that nation's coalition government. Earlier this week, he denounced Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi for his liberal attitudes on permitting the free flow of immigrants throughout the region. "As an Austrian politician, I have my position on immigration," he told journalists during a walking tour near the Vatican. "President Ciampi is allowed to have a different one. It's not my problem." The Vatican has been under fierce criticism ever since news broke several months ago that Haider was to be part of an official delegation from Carinthia which is presenting the Holy See with this year's traditional Christmas tree for St. Peter's Square. The protests have resulted in a cordon of security guards around the 80-foot-high conifer. Holocaust survivors, Jewish organizations, World War II partisans, and diverse political groups are charging that the Vatican meeting legitimizes a man frequently compared to Hitler. Thousands of demonstrators marched through Rome last night, and then assembled on the Capitoline Hill for a moment of silence in protest against racism. Italian Labor Minister Cesare Salvi greeted the gathering, and was joined by Center-right opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi, who distanced his party from Haider's ideas. The Holy See's decision to follow through on the meeting between the pontiff and Mr. Haider has been a lightening rod for critics who see the Vatican as unwilling to distance itself from odious sympathizers, and take responsibility for its past wrongs. Earlier this month, for instance, the Vatican asked U.S. authorities to intervene and dismiss a lawsuit naming it as a party in aiding Nazi expatriates at the end of World War II, and hiding gold and other valuables expropriated from victims of the clerical fascist Ustashi Catholic government in the former Yugoslavia. Coincident with the flap over Haider's visit to the Vatican, the Pope received Croatia's new ambassador to the Holy See, Franjo Zenko, and denounced the various dictatorships the country had suffered for most of the 20th century. The papal platitudes, though, ignored the fact that the Vatican aided the Ustashi regime, and supported Croatian strongman Franjo Tudman who presided over the country from 1991 until his death last December. John Paul II has also taken criticism for his beatification of the late Archbishop Stepanic, who represented the Vatican's interest in Croatia during the time of the Ustashi regime. Common Cause With Haider: Pope Denounces Evils Of "Atheism, Secularism, Individualism" Haider's reception at the Vatican coincides with another precisely timed development, namely the early release of an official statement criticism globalism and the Western emphasis on individual rights. Although originally scheduled for publication on January 1, 2001, the Vatican Press Office released copies of "Dialogue Between Cultures for a Civilization of Love and Peace," which marks the New Year's celebration of World Peace Day. An Associated Press release noted that the statement was being "sent to world leaders two weeks early." It is a typical John Paul oration, scolding the world's nations for emphasizing values at odds with the Vatican agenda. The statement includes much of the language used by political observers to describe the emergence of a post-cold war world characterized by more diaphanous national boundaries, global trade and communications, emphasis on consumerism, and a growing stress on individual rights and choices in the cultural and economic marketplace. The harshest language is reserved for notions which the Vatican has found increasingly more dangerous and pervasive -- secularism, Atheism and individualism. In a hit at Western affluence, the statement declares: "The radicalization of identity which makes cultures resistant to any beneficial influence from outside is worrying enough; but no less perilous is the slavish conformity of cultures, or at least key aspects of them, to cultural models derived from the Western world view. Detached from their Christian origins, these models are often inspired by an approach to life marked by secularism and practical atheism and by patterns of radical individualism. This is a phenomenon of vast proportions, sustained by powerful media campaigns and design to propagate lifestyles, social and economic programs, and in the last analysis, a comprehensive world-view which erodes from within other estimable cultures and civilizations." Western materialism and cultural paradigms were described as "enticing and alluring because of their remarkable scientific and technical case," but Christians were admonished that "there is growing evidence of their deepening human, spiritual and moral impoverishment." "The culture which produces such models is marked by the fatal attempt to secure the good of humanity by eliminating God, the Supreme Good..." The emerging global "culture industry" is excoriated as well, and this latest statement is not the first the Vatican has made expressing its displeasure with the ability of movies, music and other entertainment forms to erode religious cultures and mock sectarian beliefs. "These products include and transmit implicit value-systems and can therefore lead to a kind of dispossession and loss of cultural identity in those who receive them." Hijacking Issues Te Roman Catholic Church has emerged as a major player (if not the leader) on the international scene in a loosely knit movement of sectarian and social groups, and nation states linked by a cluster of concerns having to do with modernity and globalism. These issues can cover the gamut from environmental concerns to issues like migration, economic development, and problems which often emerge in the dislocations of social change. At a recent United Nations forum on family planning and population, for instance, the Vatican joined with several Asian and Latin American countries heavily influenced by Catholicism, and Islamic states in attempting to torpedo resolutions supporting birth control and demographic restraint. The "Dialogue Between Cultures" points to similar Vatican concerns over "the value of life," and the Holy See's war on abortion rights for women, liberated sexuality and issues like euthanasia and biogenetic technologies. The pontiff speaks of a "tragic spiral of death which includes murder, suicide, abortion, euthanasia, as well as practices of mutilation, physical and psychological torture, forms of unjust coercion, arbitrary imprisonment, unnecessary recourse to the death penalty, deportations, slavery, prostitution, trafficking in women and children." The linkage of these practices betrays a distinct Vatican agenda. The pontiff continues: "To this list we must add irresponsible practices of genetic engineering such as cloning and use of human embryos for research, which are justified by an illegitimate appeal to freedom, to cultural progress, to the advancement of mankind." Those who disagree are not part of the "civilization based on love and peace" supposedly advocated by the Holy See. So far, there has been little coverage of the document in the American or European press. The themes are not new ones, though, and are even hauntingly familiar, especially when examining the agenda of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. In 1997, for instance, AANEWS observed the common ideological themes in the rhetoric of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and Catholic prelates. Indeed, at a gathering of hundreds of bishops from North and Latin America held in Rome in 1997, we noted the words of Rev. Donald Wuerl of Pittsburgh who told his fellow clerics that "Heavy emphasis on the individual and his or her rights has greatly eroded the concept of the common good and its ability to call people to something beyond themselves..." The Bishops went on to denounce the fact that "In our democracy, divergent political viewpoints are more often resolved by the facile reliance on the rule of the majority than by a genuine discernment of what is best for the common good." One bishop described abortion and physician-assisted suicide as "unspeakable crimes" which are "embraced in the name of individual rights and democracy." Haider and the pope may disagree on many issues; but they also have common cause in their mutual distrust of globalism, "too much freedom" and the lack of subordination of the individual to a higher calling, be it authoritian politics or doctrinaire religion. The Vatican also realizes that Haider may have a future in the European political scene. Rarely does the Holy See ignore an opportunity to "dialogue" with powerful political leaders. In the meantime, the Vatican's latest statement on Atheism, secularism and individualism underscores its political agenda throughout the world, and in the United States. With a new president about to be sworn in, the Holy See may well consider George W. Bush -- like Mr.Haider -- a political asset and ideological ally. For further information: http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/vat11.htm ("Vatican asks court, U.S. Government to dismiss lawsuit over Nazi gold," 11/28/00) http://www.americanatheist.org/pope99.calvi.html (The mysterious death of Roberto Calvi and ties to the Vatican bank, Nazi-era intrigue, more) http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/vat10.htm ("House votes 416-1 to retain special Vatican status at U.N.," 7/12/00) http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/vatican9.htm ("As conference opens, Vatican accused of subverting progress for women's rights," 6/5/00) http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/vatican8.htm ("Bush chases 'Catholic vote," affirms support for special Vatican status at United Nations," 5/29/00) http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/vat7b.htm ("The Vatican as political state, religious sect," 3/17/00) http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/vatican5.htm ("Gone with the wind blowing lid off Vatican corruption?" 8/118/99) http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/bishop2.htm ("Fearing Freedom -- Pope, Bishops, Rev. 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