Behind the pope’s
proclamations is a powerful Vatican adviser who is highly regarded among global
governance advocates, Peter
Sutherland, a non-executive
chairman of Wall Street investment banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs who served
as chairman of oil giant BP through 2009.
Sutherland’s globalist
credentials are exceptional.
Born in Ireland, where
he also served as attorney general, he was appointed to the European Commission
in 1985 and headed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which has evolved
today into the World Trade Organization.
Later, he was appointed
to the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group and served as the honorary
chairman of the Trilateral Commission.
In addition to his
global governance credentials, Sutherland is one of an estimated 100 elite
Papal Knights within the Roman Catholic lay religious society Knights of Malta
and a member of Opus Dei.
In
his 1999 book, “Their Kingdom Come,” Canadian financial journalist Robert
Hutchinson characterized Opus Dei as a secret society of international bankers, financiers and
businessman whose goal critics have characterized as using the influence of the
Catholic Church and its largely tax-exempt worldwide network to advance the
aims of global government.
‘I’m not a leftist’
On Sept. 22, when flying
to the United States for the first time, Pope
Francis assured journalists he is not a socialist, insisting his teachings “on economic
imperialism” are “the social doctrine of the church.”
Similarly, in defending
his 2013 apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii
Gaudium” (“The Joy of the
Gospel”), a treatise radio talk-show host Rush
Limbaugh attacked as “pure Marxism,” Pope Francis castigated the “new idolatry of money.”
He told
the Italian newspaper La Stampa the “ideology of Marxism is wrong,” though he acknowledged he had
met many Marxists in his life “who are good people.”
Yet, when it came time
to reform the Vatican Bank, Francis appointed
Sutherland as his adviser to
Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, the Vatican’s new name
for the Vatican Bank.
Sutherland’s influence
on the pope’s thinking is probably nowhere more clear than on the issue of
refugees and international immigration.
‘The world’s
responsibility’
In February, the
Vatican approved Sutherland’s election as president of the International
Catholic Migration Commission, a position he holds while serving
as the U.N. special representative of the secretary-general for international
migration.
On Oct. 5, Sutherland
ruffled feathers with an interview published by the United Nations in which he claimed the refugees currently
flooding Europe from Syria and the Middle East are the responsibility of the
world under the
United Nation’s 1951 Refugee Convention.
“They’re the
responsibility of the United States, of Canada, of Latin America and of Asia,
as well as Europe. Proximity doesn’t define responsibility,” Sutherland said.
“The world has to get its act together with regard to what is happening in
North Africa.”
Sutherland’s
ideas on migration trace back to an interview he gave the BBC in June 2010 in which he said the European Union should “do
its best to undermine” the “homogeneity of its member states, arguing that the
future prosperity of many EU states depended upon them becoming multicultural.”
The BBC further reported
that Sutherland told a House of Lords committee that migration was a “crucial
dynamic for economic growth” in some EU nations, “however difficult it might be
to explain this to the citizens of those states.”
Sutherland, according to
the BBC, gave a lecture to the London School of Economics, where he is also
chairman, arguing there was a “shift from states selecting migrants to migrants
selecting states” and the EU’s ability to compete at a “global level” was at
risk.
He added that the EU
states should stop targeting “highly skilled” migrants, insisting that “at the
most basic level individuals should have a freedom of choice” about whether to
come and study or work in another country.
‘Hearts of Pilgrims’
In
the speech he gave in a midday prayer service to the United States Bishops at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in
Washington, D.C., on Sept. 23, Pope Francis’ openly embraced Hispanic
immigrants in the United States, not distinguishing between legal and illegal
immigration.
“My second recommendation
has to do with immigrants,” he said at the end of his speech, seemingly mindful
that he shares his native Spanish language with the millions of Hispanic
immigrants. “I ask you to excuse me if in some way I am pleading my own case.
The pope said the Roman
Catholic Church in the United States “knows like few others the hopes present
in the hearts of these ‘pilgrims.’”
“From the beginning you
have learned their languages, promoted their cause, made their contributions
your own, defended their rights, helped them to prosper and kept alive the
flame of their faith,” he said.
“Even today, no American
institution does more for immigrants than your Christian communities,” the pope
stressed. “Now you are facing this stream of Latin immigration which affects
many of your dioceses. Not only as the Bishop of Rome, but also as a pastor
from the South, I feel the need to thank and encourage you,” the pope said.
“Perhaps it will not be
easy for you to look into their soul; perhaps you will be challenged by their diversity,”
he continued. “But know that they also possess resources meant to be shared.
“So do not be afraid to
welcome them,” he concluded. “Offer them the warmth of the love of Christ and
you will unlock the mystery of their heart. I am certain that, as so often in
the past, these people will enrich America and its Church.”
The Golden Rule
The next day, addressing
a joint session of Congress,
Francis’s remarks on refugees and migration mirrored comments made by
Sutherland.
“Our world is facing a
refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War,” the pope
said, referring to refugees from Syria and the Middle East. “This presents us
with great challenges and many hard decisions.
“On this continent, too,
thousands of persons are led to travel north in search of a better life for
themselves and for their loved ones, in search of greater opportunities,” he continued,
referring to Hispanic immigration to the United States.
“Is this not what we
want for our own children?” he asked. “We must not be taken aback by their
numbers, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to
their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation.”
Concluding the thought,
Francis quoted from Matthew 7:12, evoking the Golden Rule.
“To respond in a way
which is always humane, just and fraternal,” he said. “We need to avoid a
common temptation nowadays: to discard whatever proves troublesome. Let us
remember the Golden Rule: ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’”
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Comments
The
Catholic Church needs to declare the family as the only essential economic unit
and to ensure that families are free to eradicate poverty, first for family
members and next for neighbors in need. The “golden rule” becomes the mandate
for families, not governments. It puts the responsibility squarely on the
family. Governments need to function as a utility, providing roads and bridges
and controlling its borders.
The
church needs to reject the seduction of government imposed socialism. The
church also needs to declare that the free market system, where the economy is
privatized and families are free to become self-supporting is the only economic
system that allows this to happen. It
requires minimum “use” taxation of families, private property rights, the rule
of law and limited government. The church has been seduced and corrupted by
socialist government schemes designed to replace the church with the state.
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