This, the final section of this paper, coincides with the sincere petition whereby the Holy Father, John Paul II, publicly implored God’s forgiveness and mercy for the sins and the sheer thoughtlessness, perpetrated by Catholics in name of the Holy Catholic Church. In essence, these sins are transgressions of Christ’s supreme and all-embracing command of “love one another as I have loved you” [John 15:12]. This great love of God for man forced Our Blessed Lord to hold up to the Jews and to all of us the sins in which they would die if they would not repent. This the Holy Father has done in March 2000, and we may add: on the strength of what his predecessor Pope Leo XIII had written in 1879:

“The only-begotten Son of the Eternal Father, who came on earth to bring salvation and the Light of Divine Wisdom to men, conferred a great and wonderful blessing on the world, when, about to ascend into heaven, He commanded the Apostles to go out and teach all the nations, and left the Church He had founded to be the common and supreme teacher of the peoples. For men, whom the Truth had set free, were to be preserved by the Truth ... And the Church built upon the promises of its own divine Author whose charity it imitated, so faithfully followed out His commands, that its constant aim and chief wish was this: to teach true religion and forever to do battle against error.” [Aeterni Patris, 1879].

          It is to be noted here that teaching the Truth (Christ) and contending forever with error is equated here with supreme Love: imitating the Love of Christ. But it is in this very area that unwise zeal, thoughtlessness and sins have crept in for which Pope John Paul II asked for forgiveness. Thus “teaching the Truth” and “forever doing battle with error” must never be carried out at the expense of and in offence with supreme charity.

          Nowadays many Catholics are of the opinion that “teaching the Truth” and “forever doing battle with error” are almost impossible to carry out without committing the very sins for which the Holy Father stood in the breach. This sullenness is in direct contrast with the fearless speech of Christ Himself, and with the profound actions of the papacy through the ages, including the present Pope. To reinforce this incisive perception, here then are reprinted some more quotes taken from the writings of the Popes who followed after the great Leo XIII.

“One of the primary obligations assigned by Christ to the office divinely committed to Us of feeding the Lord’s flock is that of guarding with the greatest vigilance the deposit of the faith delivered to the saints, rejecting the profane novelties of words and the gainsaying of knowledge falsely so called. There has never been a time when this watchfulness of the supreme pastor was not necessary to the Catholic body, for owing to the efforts of the enemy of the human race, there have never been lacking ‘men speaking perverse things’, [Acts 20:30] ‘vain talkers and seducers’, [Titus 1:10] ‘erring and driving into error’ [2 Tim. 3:13]. It must, however, be confessed that these latter days have witnessed a notable increase in the number of the enemies of the Cross of Christ, who, by arts entirely new and full of deceit, are striving to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, as far as in them lies, utterly to subvert the very Kingdom of Christ. Wherefore We may no longer keep silence, lest We should seem to fail in Our most sacred duty, and lest the kindness that, in the hope of wiser counsels, We have hitherto shown them, should be set down to lack of diligence in the discharge of Our office.

That We should act without delay in this matter is made imperative especially by the fact that the partisans of error are to be sought not only among the Church’s open enemies; but, what is to be most dreaded and deplored, in her very bosom, and are the more mischievous the less they keep in the open. We allude, Venerable Brethren, to many who belong to the Catholic laity, and, what is much more sad, to the ranks of the priesthood itself, who, animated by a false zeal for the Church, lacking the solid safeguards of philosophy and theology, nay more, thoroughly imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the enemies of the Church, and lost to all sense of modesty, put themselves forward as reformers of the Church; and, forming more boldly into line of attack, assail all that is most sacred in the work of Christ, not sparing even the Person of the Divine Redeemer, whom, with sacrilegious audacity, they degrade to the condition of a simple and ordinary man.” [Pascendi, 1907].

          These and the following words have just as much the ring of infallibility as the words of Pope John Paul II about Mercy and Forgiveness. The latter are not given by God and His representatives on earth in ignorance of the evil done. We must keep in mind that the good understanding previous Popes displayed about the evil done by the enemies of the Church and in the Church, especially in organising the ‘great movement of apostasy in every country’ [Our Apostolic Mandate, 1910] must be matched with the efforts of the great Pope of our own times in promoting the doctrine of Divine Mercy.

“At this very troublesome and difficult time, the hidden designs of God have conducted Our poor strength to the office of Supreme pastor, to rule the entire flock of Christ. The enemy has, indeed, long been prowling about the fold and attacking it with such subtle cunning that now, more than ever before, the prediction of the Apostle to the elders of the Church of Ephesus seems to be verified: ‘I know that ... fierce wolves will get in among you, and will not spare the flock.’ [Acts 20:29]. Those who still are zealous for the glory of God are seeking the causes and reasons for this decline in religion. Coming to a different explanation, each points out, according to his own view, a different plan for the protection and restoration of the kingdom of God on earth. But it seems to Us, Venerable Brethren, that while we should not overlook other considerations, We are forced to agree with those who hold that the chief cause of the present indifference and, as it were, infirmity of soul, and the serious evils that result from it, is to be found above all in ignorance of things divine. This is fully in accord with what God Himself declared through the Prophet Hosea:

‘And there is no knowledge of God in the land. Cursing and lying and killing and theft and adultery have overflowed: and blood hath touched blood. Thereafter shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth in it shall languish.’ [Hos 4:1-3]

It is a common complaint, unfortunately too well founded, that there are large numbers of Christians in our own time who are entirely ignorant of those truths necessary for salvation. And when we mention Christians, We refer not only to the masses or to those in the lower walks of life -- for these find some excuse for their ignorance in the fact that the demands of their harsh employers hardly leave them time to take care of themselves or of their dear ones -- but We refer to those especially who do not lack culture or talents and, indeed, are possessed of abundant knowledge regarding things of the world but live rashly and imprudently with regard to religion. It is hard to find words to describe how profound is the darkness in which they are engulfed and, what is most deplorable of all, how tranquilly they repose there. They rarely give thought to God, the Supreme Author and Ruler of all things, or to the teachings of the faith of Christ. They know nothing of the Incarnation of the Word of God, nothing of the perfect restoration of the human race which He accomplished. Grace, the greatest of the helps for attaining eternal things, the Holy Sacrifice and the Sacraments by which we obtain grace, are entirely unknown to them. They have no conception of the malice and baseness of sin; hence they show no anxiety to avoid sin or to renounce it. And so they arrive at life’s end in such a condition that, lest all hope of salvation be lost, the priest is obliged to give in the last few moments of life a summary teaching of religion, a time which should be devoted to stimulating the soul to greater love for God. And even this as too often happens only when the dying man is not so sinfully ignorant as to look upon the ministration of the priest as useless, and then calmly faces the fearful passage to eternity without making his peace with God. And so Our Predecessor, Benedict XIV, had just cause to write:

‘We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.’ (Instit. 27:18, 1749)”
[Acerbo nimis, 1905].

“It has always been a cause of deep and heart-felt sorrow to honest folk, and above all to good and loyal sons of the Church, that the judgements of mankind in the sphere of religion and morals should be so variable and so apt to stray from the truth. And today, when the very elements of Christian culture are being openly attacked on all sides, this sorrow is felt with exceptional force.”
[Humani Generis, 1950].

          And what did the Pontiff write who convened the Second Vatican Council, Pope John XXIII? Is he of a different mind than the ones before him? This is what we read in the beginning of his very first encyclical:

          Pope John XXIII never veered away from these convictions, nor from the way he kept referring to the Catholic Church as: “the pillar and ground of Truth.” [1 Tim. 3:15].

          These same sentiments are not only preserved, but also openly proclaimed by the Second Vatican Council. In the 1st chapter of its very first document, the one on the Sacred Liturgy, we can read in the opening lines the following reference to 1 Tim. 2:4: “God who wills that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth ...”

          Once again, the intimate link is being established between Salvation and coming to the knowledge of the Truth.

          After that, the unbroken line in the minds of the Holy Fathers of the paramount importance of coming to the knowledge of the Truth in the work of Salvation is maintained by the post-Conciliar Pontiff, Pope Paul VI in his Credo of the People of God, and by Pope John Paul II in his first encyclical, Redemptor Hominis, 1979, in which a key truth of Faith is based on the fundamental Truth of the Incarnation of the Son of God.

          So, where is the fundamental link in the mind of the present Holy Father, Pope John Paul II between “imitating the charity of Christ in proclaiming the Truth and contending forever with error” (1879), and Redemptor Hominis, 1979?

          The fundamental link between these two lies in this that Christ did not only show His great charity to the Jews in proclaiming to them the Truth (Himself) and contending forever with their errors, but also showed them an even greater Love by dying for them in their unbelief: Dives in Misericordia, or Rich in Mercy, (1980). And there is no doubt in this Holy Father’s mind that this is the sentiment of the post-Conciliar Church today, and should be the sentiment of everyone of Her Catholic children born from Her Mystical Life. For in at least four places in the Sacred Documents of Vatican II, this great Council of the present time reminds all Catholics to be prepared to shed their blood for the salvation of the world. This cannot be done without a great share in the Mystical Life of Our Holy Mother the Catholic Church. Thus “imitating the charity of Christ by proclaiming the Truth and by battling forever with error” can only be done successfully by those who are equally convinced that, before God, we must “stand in” for our brothers and sisters in our daily prayers and sacrifices until called upon to lay down our lives for them. This will mingle the fearless proclamation of the Truth with the Divine Mercy so eagerly sought after, imposed and practiced by our present Holy Father.

          It is in the context of all this Divine and Papal teaching in the new millennium that we will try to describe and finish what we set out in this paper.

          The following is an English translation from an article that appeared in a Dutch magazine De Katholieke Nieuwsbrief [The Catholic Newsletter] in its 1st edition of 1999. This news service is edited and published by Mr. Jan Leechburch Auwers. We are grateful for his permission to publish it here for the benefit of English-speaking readers. I have interspersed the narrative of this section here and there with short explanations in square brackets [...] to put this final section in context with what was discussed before.

          Most of what now follows can be found on the Internet.

Organisations and Structures

The UR

          One of the most cherished dreams of the New World Order seems now to be within reach: a One-World ‘Church’ which has been in the making for the last 150 years. With the active cooperation of (1) the United Religions of the world, UR, the brainchild of the Episcopalian church of California under the driving force of a certain ‘bishop’ by the name of William Swing, (2) of the Gorbachev Institute (USA) and (3) of the World Conference on Religion and Peace, the WCRP, an inter-religious organisation in which selected leaders of the Catholic Church also operate. The UR is in an advanced stage of being founded in June this year: the year 2000. At least this is the intention of ‘bishop’ Swing who wishes to give this organisation a five year head-start to become fully operational by the year 2005. Its activities and coordination will almost certainly be directed from the Presidio, the former Coast Guard base in San Francisco.

          Built on the structure of the United Nations with plenary sessions, a security council and a general secretary, the UR is meant to be for the world religions what the UN is for the nations of the world. It will be a permanent centre of assembly where the religions of the world meet each other in daily prayer, dialogue and united actions for the safeguarding of life on this planet. There the religions will also have an opportunity to share with one another and with the public at large the contents of their sacred books and writings, music, prayers and wisdom. From what has come to light so far in the previous sections of this research project, we can well imagine what these ‘prayers’ and ‘wisdom’ will be like. Our apprehension is reinforced by the following ‘prophesy’ of ‘bishop’ Swing:

“Much more than the light of Christ will the UR beam out the light of the world’s spiritual traditions (paganism and occultism included) in a world which desperately is in search of light.”

          So this ‘light’ will be produced by those who caused the darkness in the first place.

          Just as the world bank, so also will the UR have access to a ‘Value Bank’, of which the investments poured into it will be used to find solutions for problems threatening the conservation of nature, the safeguarding of the environment, and the major questions affecting populations such as poverty and diseases [and overpopulation!].

          This proposed ‘Value Bank’ will thus appear on the world scene in an aura of benevolence. [Who was the first to point out to us that the looming “One-World ‘Church’ of Darkness” would use pretence and pretexts? According to this accurate prophesy of a Saint and Pope, this so-called ‘Value Bank’ will not be what it will be made to appear to be, but will have ominous strings attached to it! In other words, ‘coercion’].

          According to the San Francisco Chronicle of January 23, 1996, Swing insists that the Vatican will bring into this One-World religion its own hall or meeting place. A hall for talks, a hall for listening, a hall for decisive actions, a hall for meetings with other religions, a kind of ‘theme park’ thus, to bring out a better understanding for peoples of different faiths. [The Vatican and the Holy Father have their own supernatural reasons for involving Catholics in the projects of this kaleidoscopic scenery of world religions: “upholding the Truth and contending forever with error”].

          Swing is concerned “that religions have no voice at the table of responsibility in world affairs”. His view of the UR is “that it is an attempt to bring this factor of responsible decision-making within the religious forum of the world”. “We stand on the threshold of the first world community” he told a reporter, “but there is no world connection with the soul. I think, if we become a world unity, we will have to find out what ‘religion’ can mean for the world population”.

          Well, along what lines is ‘bishop’ Swing thinking how ‘religion’ can be ‘meaningful’ for the world population?

“The UR will be a symbol that all believers share the deep faith that all life is linked and that it is worth the effort to fight for unity on this basis.”

          In other words, according to Swing it is pantheism that lies at the root of world faith which all believers will have to accept as the basis for religious unity. To reinforce this world ‘doctrine’ Swing includes a real threat that all those who reject this ‘deep faith in pantheism’ will be held responsible by the world religion authority – the UR – for being the cause for disunity and breaches of world peace.

          Swing is supported in this by world leaders. He has sought the advice of religious organisations which are affiliated with the United Nations but not (yet) instituted by certain governments as well as that of religious leaders and other leading lights about the aims and the organisation of the UR. He claims to have received the green light of many people, as e.g. Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama and the Islamic head of the High Court of Pakistan. In the (Northern) Spring of 1996 he made a ‘pilgrimage’ to visit the leaders of world religions in order to solicit their support. His itinerary took him to king Hussein of Jordan as well as to Rome, Canterbury, Cairo and Jerusalem.

Gorbachev and his World Forum

          The ‘Gorbachev Institute’, one of ‘bishop’ Swing’s partners, was brought into being in the USA a few months before the collapse of Communism as the International Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the USSR. It is established in the already mentioned Presidio. Gorbachev is still a convinced communist. As an instrument of Freemasonry, Communism has a long association with the formation of One-World Religion.

          It is a fact of history that, as a form of Pantheism, Communism is being advocated as being the basis for One-World religion and for world unity. Communists have for years attended inter-religious conferences, even if everywhere they were looked upon and held up as being the so called enemies.

The WCRP

          The other main partner of ‘bishop’ Swing is the World Conference for Religion and Peace. It is mainly through this organisation that Catholics have become involved in the formation of the UR.

          The WCRP came into being in 1970 with a strong representation of Catholics, but the blueprints were already drawn up in 1960 by four American religious leaders counting among them Cardinal John Wright. The Catholic Archbishop of New Dehli, Angelo Fernandes, became its first international president. During the 1979 session of the WCRP, an inter-religious service was held in St. Patrick’s cathedral in New York, presided over by Cardinal Cooke.

          The UR reflects the aims and intentions of the WCRP, such as a world parliament of religions directed to “the universal wellbeing of all people” – which happens to be the very thing which is pursued by the UR. For, apart from promoting spirituality, it is the intention of the UR to be an organ for debate and decisions - in other words to be a parliament – “in the interest of the whole world”. [Mark that in these words attributed to ‘bishop’ Swing, his threats about non-compliance with the universal acceptance of pantheism, have not been withdrawn, because the WCRP and the UR are at cross-purposes here. The WCRP aims at “the universal well-being of all people”, whereas the UR still speaks “about the interest of the whole world”. These two are not the same].

          Thus the WCRP has in mind the formation of an International Centrum for the service of God and the Solution of Conflicts (financed by the Rockefeller Foundation) while the UR also pursues the formation and training of peace corps composed of spiritual leaders and retired politicians (!), supported by experts whose task it will be to find solutions for all situations which have the potential of breaking out into open conflicts. But while the WCRP (at least nominally) is still driven by a desire to secure the well-being of individuals, the UR pursues its aims under threat. [Remember Dr. Beyerhaus’ words a few pages back describing the One-World ‘Church’: “We wooed you, we ignored you, we warned you! You would not listen! Now we must wrathfully attack you!”]

          That sums up ‘bishop’ Swing, Gorbachev and their UR. It is also the description of “the second beast” by St. John in the 13th chapter of his Book of Revelation. Will it also turn out in the long run to become the practice adopted by the WCRP? Going by the ‘lame-duck’ Catholics who have attended the World Congresses on Religion in the past, organised by the WCC, that is a distinct possibility].

          The WCRP promotes world citizenship in preference to citizenship of a country or nation. This means it is after the formation of world government. Archbishop Fernandes is in favour of this new world order together with other high-ranking officials.

          The WCRP is independent of governments associated with the UN although its HQ are in the UN building in New York, with offices in several countries. It is in close contact with the UN, Unicef and Unesco. Dr. John Humphrey a former president of the Canadian office, wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the United Nations. The WCRP has strongly stressed its agenda in the UN conferences held in Cairo, Copenhagen and Beijing, and organised an inter-religious service in Copenhagen.

Conferences and Meetings

          This, then, is the three-pronged attack on the Holy Catholic Church. We will once again go through the same three branches of attempts at unifying the world religions into the One-World ‘Church’, this time to highlight some of their conferences and meetings. These are held very regularly to help the delegates thrash out the aims and objectives of these three principal arms of “the second beast’s” war with the Catholic Church ...

The UR

          ‘Bishop’ Swing is on friendly terms with the ex-Dominican Matthew Fox who is now an Episcopalian ‘priest’ in his diocese. In the autumn of 1994 was ‘Grace cathedral’ the venue for Fox’s ‘Planetary Mass’, set up - as an adaptation to the Anglican ‘Mad Mass’ he had at one time attended in England - to draw attention to the need for the conservation of the environment. The Dallas Morning News of May 13, 1995 described this blasphemous service as a “mixture of christian ritual, occultism, adoration of the earth, theosophy, creation spirituality and a mad, night-long ‘celebration’ in ‘honour’ of God and mother nature”. In his publications and in his cathedral ‘bishop’ Swing has made use of occult symbols representing earth, air, fire and water. He has described our times as the ‘inverse repetition of the story of the Great Flood when water drowned the population’. ‘Now the world is drowning in overpopulation. The lack of water will tell us the exact moment when this new flood has arrived’.

          The plans for the foundation of the UR were revealed for the first time by ‘bishop’ Swing during a syncretistic service held at the occasion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the UN’s manifesto. Delegates of all religions as well as heads of political and religious organisations came together for the memorial service in the episcopalian Grace cathedral in San Francisco on June 25, 1995. Among those present were Princess Margaret from the UK, the Anglican ‘archbishop’ Desmond Tutu from South Africa, the then president of Poland, Lech Walesa, and the then secretary-general of the UN, Boutros-Ghali.

          According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle of June 26, 1995, prayers, psalms and black magic incantations were offered to a dozen or so ‘deities’. But the key to the secret designs of the UR were only fully laid bare when, in a truly pantheistic ceremony in which children from every corner of the globe mixed water from more than thirty so-called ‘holy water wells’ in a huge ‘vessel of unity’, accompanied by an international children’s choir singing a dirge from the sacrilegious Missa Gaia. [Blasphemous, because it is not a Mass, yet the word is borrowed from the Catholic Church to portray a pagan service for ‘the earth’]. The waters mixed came from the Ganges, the Amazon, the Red Sea, the Jordan and from Lourdes ... ‘Bishop’ Swing announced: “Just as these holy waters here flow together, so may the ‘city’ of the UN manifesto bring together the religions of the world”.

          “In August 1995 Swing took part in a syncretistic conference which had been called together by the North American Inter-faith Network in Dallas. At that conference Swing called the process of starting the birth of the world ‘religion’ The United Religions Initiative 2000. The following is an excerpt taken from the Newsletter of the UR of December 1996.”

‘This initiative of uniting all religions and spiritual traditions around one table means a permanent, daily and worldwide commission. There they will respect one another’s diversities as well as try to bring peace amongst the religions so that they can cooperate with each other for the well-being of all life and for the healing of the earth.’

          In 1997 a conference was organised at Stanford University from 23rd – 27th of June known as the second summit conference of the UR. The nearly 200 delegates who attended this conference had been selected from the highest echelons available. And it was there that the UR was created as a permanent institution under the name of “The One-World ‘Church’”. The meetings of this conference were kept secret.

The World Forum of Gorbachev

          This institute organised in September 1995 a forum conference for discussions on the state of the world. The object was the formation of a five-year process to bring to light the fundamental priorities, values and actions needed to start humanity off on the road to the first world civilisation. To provide the leadership for this project, Gorbachev proposed the formation of a world ‘brain trust’ composed of the elite of world leaders.

          As participants of this ‘brain trust’ were present at this conference: James Baker; the at that time minister-president of Turkey, Tansu Ciller; George Bush; Margaret Thatcher; Brian Mulroney (ex prime minister of Canada); Vaclav Havel; George Schultz; Rupert Murdoch; Bill Gates; Robert Muller; Matthew Fox; Carl Sagan; Shirley MacLaine; and the one-time ‘humanist of the year’, Ted Turner of the CNN (Cable News Network). Proceedings were livened up by pagan priests and witches.

          In Canada’s Pro Life newspaper The Interim, of April 1996, it was reported that birth control was the main topic of this conference. As Gorbachev himself put it: “it has become necessary that we must tackle the problem of the control of world population”. This theme was interwoven in discussions on world government, world security and related topics. But nowhere did this topic receive more stress than in the discussions on religion. The main line of attack centred around the accusation that Christianity was to be held responsible for the population dilemma. The final communique of the conference brought to light that there had been a unanimous conviction amongst the participants that the religious institutions carry the first responsibility for the population explosion. “It will be incumbent on us to speak much more clearly over sexuality, contraception, abortion ... for the crisis in the ecology ... is the crisis of overpopulation. Reduce the world population by 90% and the result will be that there will not be enough people to do much damage to the environment”.

          The second forum conference of March 1997 was called together to present to the world the UR. Coupled to this was the other main objective: to pursue the development of the so-called global ethics, a number of ‘base values’ to be adopted by the world religions for a greater cooperation between them. The principal force behind this ‘global ethics’ is Hans Küng, the discredited ‘catholic’ theologian, who maintains that agreement on his proposals will lead to decisions with regard to the contents of this course of ethics.

          In 1993 Küng made a presentation of his ‘global ethics’ to the conference of the inter-religious Parliament of world religions in Chicago as the guest of the Catholic Archdiocese of that city. The document containing his propositions declares that religious renewal will only be possible if people accept the ethics that lie at the foundation of the world religions, irrespective if they believe in any of those or not. This latter part was stressed with great emphasis. ‘Global ethics’ has nothing whatsoever to do with Catholic faith or morals. It deals exclusively with the rights of women, ‘justice’, peace, care for the environment and tolerance with evil and sin. All that is then elevated to some kind of humanistic ‘mandates’ and their doctrinal underpinnings for the replacement of the Ten Commandments. ‘Ethics’ is nowadays a fashionable word with ‘religious’ leaders, because, in contrast with the absoluteness of the Ten Commandments, these modern ethical rules are variable. Robert Muller elaborates as follows: “Every generation must decide what is ‘good’ and what is ‘evil’. We can call on science (not religion!) to determine what is ‘good’ and what is ‘evil’. We need an ‘ethics’ that is ‘time-related’ i.e. one that changes with times and situations. For we must concede that, what is presently considered correct, could be wrong to declare it as such tomorrow”.

          [The Christian religion is today almost unanimously declared to be “Enemy No. 1” in international affairs. According to the above ‘doctrine’ it could be wrong to declare it as such tomorrow! So what ‘merit’ can be attached to such ‘value clarification’ today even on their own ethics? Today it is apparently ‘a good thing’ to eliminate 90% of the world population to ‘save’ the environment. What will tomorrow think of that?]

The WCRP

          In November 1994, the sixth plenary session of the World Conference on Religion and Peace took place in the Vatican. The theme of the conference was: “Healing the world; Religions for Peace”. It was the first time that an official inter-religious conference had been called together by the Holy See. In his opening address the Holy Father told the 900 representatives of world religions that “religious leaders must clearly show that they are serious about the promotion of peace” and that “religions must undertake a dialogue of mutual understanding and peace on the basis of the collective values they share”.

          Next to the numerous non-christian speakers was it possible to listen to Gustavo Gutierrez (‘liberation theology’), president of the Rockefeller foundation which provided the finance for the conference, Hans Küng, one of the international presidents of the WCRP, disqualified by the Pope as a Catholic theologian, but had nevertheless been invited by the Holy Father to present his ‘global ethics’; together with Cardinal Martini from Milan, well-known for his liberal outlook on Freemasonry; an advocate for a new Vatican Council to open renewed discussions on topics such as the ordination of women, clerical celibacy and the use of contraception, and who unashamedly pushes himself forward as the next pope. Other speakers were Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and the Nigerian-born Francis Cardinal Arinze, president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue. It was Card. Etchegaray who in 1986 with the aid of the WCRP had been the principal organiser of the first inter-religious prayer meeting in Assisi.

          [For a good understanding of why Francis Card. Arinze is often seen as a possible successor of Pope John Paul II, the reader is referred to his speech to the 1999 graduating class of Wake Forest University, where he addressed a crowd of about 10,000 people. This speech will give readers an indication of what the Cardinal may have said at the WCRP conference in the Vatican in 1994].

          The Newsletter of the WCRP of February 1995 announced that the closing session of the conference “did accept the existence of the diversity of the new world community”, that it “endorsed the sacred character of the earth and our unity with it”, and that it declared that “the sharing together of religious texts, the respectful study of other people’s religious traditions, and the participation with communal meditations would lead to mutual enrichment and inspiration”. But these are the very sentiments of the UR which the WCRP helped to come into being ...!

          [It is obvious from the above that the Holy See will not leave the initiative for peace and harmony amongst the religions of the world to the make-shift organisations described in these pages. Their participants have a vested interest in seeing the Catholic Church as the greatest threat to that very peace and harmony, and thus will do everything they can to see Her speedy demise. Since Vatican II the Church has a clear idea of the true ecumenism to counteract the false ecumenism of the UR, of the Gorbachev forum and of the WCRP, in its mostly leftist leanings. It is to the Holy Father’s honour that the voice of the true ecumenism is heard in the world gatherings. How tenuous the hold of the Holy See is on the marxist ‘New Age’ aspirations of the majority of the WCRP membership will come out in the following development in the record of WCRP conferences. It sure highlights the plight of involved Catholics ...].

          In July 1997 the Australian branch of the WCRP held a conference in Melbourne. Hass Dellal, chairman of WCRP-Australia, played the leading role. ‘New Age’ organisations and the disciples of Matthew Fox contributed to the proceedings. The ‘elite’ of Australia was present for the WCRP discussions on birth control. Important speakers were the two primates of the Greek Orthodox and the Anglican churches, the Anglican ‘archbishop’ George Carey and Francis Cardinal Arinze, head of the papal council for inter-religious dialogue. Both Carey and Arinze agreed “that religions must cooperate to over-come intolerance, especially racism ...” Those present became united in a ‘prayer’ that contained elements of fire-adoration, pantheism, occultism, agnosticism and atheism. [Readers are reminded here of the 1973 ‘Bangkok meditation’ described by Prof. Peter Beyerhaus in his book Bangkok 73, in which those participating at that world conference on Missions ‘rejoiced in someone becoming an atheist by the grace of God ...’. Twenty-five years later nothing has changed!] At the evening meal, held in a darkened hall only illuminated by a candle on each table, 250 heads bowed in silence when the following ‘prayer for unity’ was recited:

“Let us direct our attention on the candle, that little fire, light in darkness, calling us to the evening prayer, a prayer of thanksgiving. Thanksgiving for our assembly, our unity, as sons and daughters of the earth in this vast and ancient land, on this sacred ground of ‘Dream time’.

In the presence of the unpronounceable ‘Other’, that sacred Being of Infinity and Transcendence, One and Permanent, Alpha and Omega, the Unknown and Unknowable, Lord of the Cosmos, Centre of Creation, the God of Right and Might, we pray to You in the immeasurable greatness of the world ...”

          ‘Dream time’ refers to the aboriginal ‘creation story’ that here was placed on footing of equality with the biblical account. ‘Dream time’ also makes explicit what is contained implicitly in native religion: the adoration of the serpent. Faith in the Incarnation, whereby the Son of God made the Father known to us on earth is expressly denied here!

          No wonder, then, that ‘fundamentalism’ and ‘absolutism’ were subjected to massive attacks during this conference. Card. Arinze supported the right of all religions to believe and teach their own creation stories. He saved his sharpest criticism for those who put forward that their religion is superior to others and who insist that their country allows only one religion. “We live in a worldwide city”, he said. “We must have unity in diversity”.

          It was the will of the conference that everyone accepts all religions as true.

A Joint Conference

          In June 1996 a joint conference was organised in San Francisco between the UR, the Gorbachev World Forum, and the WCRP. One point of resistance [to world unity] that was the subject of research at this conference was fundamentalism. The San Jose Mercury News of June 29 summed it all up when quoting the ‘New Age’ promoter, Robert Muller, that:

“inflexible fundamentalist systems of faith play an inciting role in world conflicts. Peace is only possible if fundamentalism is tamed by a united religion which remains faithful only to a worldwide spirituality and to the health and wellbeing of our planet.”

          Swing acknowledged that fundamentalism is “a provocation for peace”, but stressed that fundamentalists “are not the enemy”, and that they possess “great gifts which they put at the disposal of the family of nations”.

          This difference of opinion between leaders from the school of religious tolerance is more than ironic. It reflects the fundamental problem that confronts the UR when involved with the (fundamental) conviction of the ‘New Age’: “that fundamentalists and religions with an inflexible attitude to faith are the cause for disunity and wars”. And what in this context is very important: they are considered by that influential medium and futurologist, Barbara Hubbard, widow of Max Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, as a brake on the progress of the New World Order, and on the development of the universe to the (one) god-head; a development that only can be realised in a climate of universal peace ...

          Hubbard has indeed threatened fundamentalists, amongst whom she counts orthodox Catholics and Protestants, with extinction ...

Postscript

          So there it is. What was tentatively, but accurately, written early in this dossier when we quoted the sociologist Blumer, has now been spelled out in huge neon letters on top of the world.

          We also wrote:

• EVOLUTION has created a world-wide uneasiness with regard to Christianity and especially with regard to the Catholic Church in Her prohibitions against Teilhard de Chardin.

• The False ECUMENISM has become the popular uprising in which all are asked to agree that “the old Church” is the source of the difficulty. The Catholic Church with Her claim to uniqueness has kept us all divided.

• MODERNISM with its ‘group dynamics’, ‘sensitivity training’ and ‘audacity’, is meant to release the pent-up feelings of frustration and will consolidate these vague notions into ‘dogmas of reasonableness’ by indoctrination, by which Catholics who refuse to go along with it can be singled out as queer, unreasonable splitters. And finally the new,

• ONE-WORLD CHURCH of the False Ecumenism and Unity will institutionalise it all on a world wide scale in the name of the ‘New Age’, the WCC and the Holy Spirit ...

          For Marian and Eucharistic Catholics there is no cause for alarm. The ‘threat of extinction’ hangs over us in the great persecution as yet to be unleashed in full force. But even all that is still in God’s Hand; luckily not in the ‘hands’(?) of the ‘unknown god’ as proclaimed by the pathetic ‘New Age’ adherents, although they have no intention of adoring anything else except themselves, but in the Hands of the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, revealed to us and so well-known to us! Swing and Co can gash themselves as much as they like as the ‘priests’ of Baal did on Mt. Carmel (1 Kings, 18), neither the Holy Spirit nor His Supernatural Fire will descend on their apostasy.

          Thus we live in a time of great Hope, of great Trust and of great Charity, which is anything but a Dream time. We look to our own future and that of our children and grand-children with Faith and confidence. The ‘high priestess of the second beast’, Barbara Hubbard, will not live forever. Even Hitler died.

“Eternal Father,
I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity
Of Your dearly-beloved Son Our Lord Jesus Christ,
For the atonement of our own sins
And of those of the whole world.”
                                                  Chaplet of Mercy.

Further Reading

For an understanding of the ‘philosophy’ and ‘theology’ by which numerous Catholics have been deceived into accepting the mind-set of the One World ‘Church’, readers are referred to the following articles:

• “Teilhard de Chardin and the Dutch Catechism”
• “The ‘theology’ of Teilhard de Chardin”

Both these articles are on the following web page:

This page can also be reached by clicking on the “AMAIC Internet Homepage” link at the bottom of the AMAIC Bookroom Homepage.

Frits Albers, Ph.B.
MARCH 2000.