1/15/03
VATICAN, ALREADY POLITICALLY WELL SITUATED, WANTS NATION STATUS IN THE U.N.
By Al Hembd
This article is from
Zenit.org, the Vatican's official news agency.
The article
continues for a long time with the Vatican's praising itself
for it's
"diplomatic efforts for world peace, and religious freedom for
believers." (Hard to believe they actually have the
nerve to say that!
Especially given
their murders of the Serbian Orthodox during WWII, their
infamous
Inquisitions of the 16th and 17th centuries--also, given their
involvement in
fomenting both World Wars. It was
Father Staemple, a
Jesuit, for example,
who penned Mein Kampf for Hitler.
Hitler only signed
it. See "The Secret History of the
Jesuits" by Edmond Paris for more on
that. It's no secret that without the very
strenuous efforts of Eugenio
Pacelli--later Pius
XII--Hitler would not have come to power in Germany.)
But there are some
very newsworthy items buried deep under the Vatican's
self-laudatory
rhetoric.
1) It reveals that
the Vatican now has concordats with over 177
countries--a great
increase since the 1980's.
2) It reveals that
the Vatican does *not* have concordats with three
countries--China,
Vietnam, and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia
is no surprise.
However, we know how
hard the Vatican worked to wend its way into control
of Vietnam during
the Vietnam War. For more on that, read
Avro Manhattan's
"Vietnam: Why
We Went." Available at
http://www.chick.com. Yet their
efforts have not
succeeded.
I personally suspect that the Clinton
Administration's openly giving
military secrets to
Red China may have been tied to the Vatican's desires
to get a concordat
with Red China. Mr Clinton is a
graduate of Georgetown
University, a Jesuit
institution in Washington, D C. At one
point in his
college career, he
expressed a desire to become a Jesuit priest.
The
Jesuits at
Georgetown doubtless were the connections that got Mr Clinton
his Rhodes
Scholarship at Oxford in the late sixties.
The Rhodes-founded
Round Table groups
in Britain--the British equivalent of the Council for
Foreign Relations in
the US--has for its Constitution the Constitutions of
Ignatius Loyola--in
other words, the Constitution of the Society of Jesus.
The Jesuits hold
high seats in both the Round Table groups and in the
Council for Foreign
Relations. As such, their dictates no
doubt strongly
directed Mr
Clinton's foreign policies. But as yet,
their labors have
borne no fruit in a
concordat for the Vatican with Red China.
3) This is the most
ominous. The Vatican also states that
it wants nation
status in the
UN. No doubt, eventually, a seat on the
Security Council.
Here is the quote
from the article itself:
"Witnessing the
Vatican's work over the past 15 years for the defense of
peace and human
rights in poor countries, some diplomats have suggested
that the Vatican should
become a member of the United Nations. Currently
the Vatican is a
permanent observer there, with a voice but no vote."
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Vatican Diplomacy: A
Force to Be Reckoned With
Aims to Defend the
Right of Religious Freedom of Every Believer
VATICAN CITY, JAN.
14, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The Vatican's action at the
international level
has never been as extensive as it is now.
With the agreement
signed with the Arab Emirate of Qatar on Dec. 1, the
Vatican now
maintains diplomatic relations with 177 countries, including
special ties with
the Russian Federation and the Palestine Liberation
Organization. The
figure has doubled during John Paul II's pontificate.
The Vatican still
has no diplomatic relations with China (which severed
ties with Rome in
1957), Vietnam and Saudi Arabia. The Hanoi government,
nevertheless, holds
annual meetings with Vatican representatives to resolve
disputes over the
exercise of freedom of worship.
The primary
objective of relations established by the Vatican, through
concordats or
Church-state agreements, is to defend freedom of worship. In
recognizing
Catholics' right to religious liberty, states feel obliged to
acknowledge the principle
of religious liberty in general. The Vatican, in
effect, has become
the champion of all believers' rights, not just of
Catholics.
In this connection,
the great diplomatic success of the Vatican took place
in the 1960s. It
came at the height of the Cold War, during the Helsinki
proceedings and the
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
The work of then
Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, who would later become
Vatican secretary of
state, made possible the recognition of religious
liberty as a
principle in Communist countries dominated by the Soviet
Union.
Witnessing the
Vatican's work over the past 15 years for the defense of
peace and human
rights in poor countries, some diplomats have suggested
that the Vatican
should become a member of the United Nations. Currently
the Vatican is a
permanent observer there, with a voice but no vote.
In an interview with
the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera on Nov.
26, Cardinal Angelo
Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, did not reject the
possibility that one
day the Vatican might vote in the United Nations, if
this is requested of
it and "if it is useful."
"It is an open
question," he said. For the Vatican to become a full U.N.
member, the Security
Council would have to approve and recommend its
membership to the
General Assembly.
In addition to its
U.N. status, the Vatican participates in other
international
organizations, such as the Arab League (as a delegate), the
Council of Europe,
the Organization of American States, and the
Organization for
African Unity.
Jean Gueguinou,
France's new ambassador to UNESCO, and former ambassador to
the Vatican, told
the daily Le Monde on Dec. 26 that it is possible to
think that the
Vatican's action irritates some in the international realm
because of the values
it promotes. However, he said, "increasingly more
countries try in any
way possible to maintain relations with the Vatican
and to receive the
Pope."
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(Editor’s Note: It
should also be noted how the Vatican is already well positioned as a delegate
in international organizations like the Arab League and the OAS.)