Thursday, November 10, 2011

Vatican Termites Get Swatted

The term 'termites' has been long-used by Catholics who know s&^% from shinola.  The termites infest the Vatican and all Chancery offices in the US.  Everyone knows it.  Pascendi was all about the termites.

The current crop over in "Peace and Justice" just took a dose of swatting.

Precisely when the G20 summit in Cannes was coming to its weak and uncertain conclusion, on that same Friday, November 4 at the Vatican, a smaller summit convened in the secretariat of state was doing damage control on the latest of many moments of confusion in the Roman curia.

In the hot seat was the document on the global financial crisis released ten days earlier by the pontifical council for justice and peace. A document that had disturbed many, inside and outside of the Vatican.

The secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, complained that he had not known about it until the last moment. And precisely for this reason he had called that meeting in the secretariat of state.

The conclusion of the summit was that this binding order would be transmitted to all of the offices of the curia: from that point on, nothing in writing would be released unless it had been inspected and authorized by the secretariat of state.

Well, it was just a silly pipe-dream statement, right?

Wrong.

...what has been even more irritating for many authoritative readers of the document of the pontifical council for justice and peace is the fact that it is in glaring contradiction with Benedict XVI's encyclical "Caritas in Veritate."

In the encyclical, pope Joseph Ratzinger does not in any way call for a "public authority with universal competency" over politics and the economy, that sort of great Leviathan (no telling who gets the throne, or how) so dear to the document of October 24.

In "Caritas in Veritate" the pope speaks more properly of the "governance" (meaning regulation, "moderamen" in Latin) of globalization, through subsidiary and polyarchic institutions. Nothing at all like a monocratic world government.

The Statist "Ruling Class" bunch is everywhere, sometimes wearing Roman collars (and nun's habits.)  Doesn't make their idiocy any more acceptable.

HT:  Fr. Phil

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