VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – The Vatican’s goal to engage secular groups on issues of human development is not a diversion to repentance or the promotion of Catholicism, but the promotion of “common humanity”, is a cardinal head.
In a revealing interview with Vatican Edward Pentin, Cdl. Peter Appiah Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, confirms that “in no group” was spoken of “the Catholic faith as the only authentic means of human salvation” because we realize that it is a multi-diagram group. ‘
“The goal is not to provoke repentance on the point of everyone, to bring someone to their faith. If that’s something, it’s just about the point of our common humanity and how we institutions can be involved to promote it, “Turkson insists.
The Ghanaian cardinal, considered papabel (eligible to become pope) by Pentin in his book The next pope: the leading cardinal candidates, argues that his department bears witness to Christ by presenting the social doctrine of the Church and by “expressing Christ incarnated.”
The Vatican also works with secular bodies such as the Council for Inclusive Capitalism (CIC) to fulfill the mandate of dialogue with society “with all its problems and issues” expressed in Vatican II in the document. Gaudium et Spes, Reasons of Turkson.
A ‘Reset’ for Christ?
Pentin’s in-depth interview, published Wednesday, repeatedly and cardinally questioned the Church’s primary mission to ‘preach the gospel with Christ at the center’ as’ central to any plan to promote integral human development.
The journalist returns with a return to the question of what Turkson’s monastery is doing to ensure that “the Catholic faith is fully promoted and defended within the initiatives” of the Vatican’s meetings in Davos, the CIC, the United Nations and the World Economic Forum (WEF) – a body that drives the agenda of the ‘Great Reset’.
The goal is not to provoke repentance on the point of all, to bring someone to their faith.
There are many people talking about repairing the future, but the one thing everyone has in common is ‘that they see the current system as flawed’ – a feature that is particularly exposed by the pandemic, Turkson believes.
Church Militant recorded a portion of the conversation with the cardinal that was not included in the published interview, where Pentin asks Turkson:
By not talking about Christ, and putting Him clearly at the center, and rather talking about God and faith in general, you think that one can easily support in a pseudo-religion, which some ‘climate religion’ or call a pantheistic environmentalist. religion that some believe represents this Great Reset initiative?
Turkson responds:
A Vatican monastery cannot promote pantheism. In our talk on ecology, when we described the earth as our common home, it was considered pantheistic. But this is far from the case, for when we refer to St. Francis of Assisi, who is the inspiration for all this ecological doctrine of Pope Francis, St. Francis invited us to think that we belong to a universal brotherhood, because we all have the calling to praise God together.
“Creation can not be a god, because divinity can not praise God,” Turkson remarks, emphasizing that while “Davos speaks of the restoration of the future, but without Pope Francis and without his religion, Pope Francis speaks of the restoration of the future rooted in Scripture, rooted in the grace of God, [and] rooted in Christ. “
Veiled communism?
The cardinal also rejects the accusation of utopianism directed at Pope Francis and the accusation that the new allies of the Vatican are promoting ‘communism under a different name’ by calling it the ‘Great Reset’.
Fortune Magazine maintains Cdl. Turkson in 2016
‘I know for some [the pope’s vision is] a little socialist or whatever, but if we go back to the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles and how they lived, or even look at the book of Deuteronomy (chapter 5) and the jubilee celebration, which says that there would be no poor be not in your midst it was the biblical vision from the beginning, ‘Turkson adds.
By not talking about Christ … do you think one can easily support one in a sham religion, which some call ‘climate religion’?
Turkson does not quote Deuteronomy 15, which says, “For there will never cease to be poverty in the land” – a text that Jesus quoted in the story of a woman who anointed him with a very expensive perfume of pure nardus (Mark 14: 7), Matthew 26:11, John 12: 8).
When Pentin pressures Turkson to respond to criticism of initiatives “that place a lot of power in a very small group of people, which then impose on others a certain worldview,” Turkson seems to dismiss the accusation as a conspiracy theory – the kind formerly attributed to the “Illuminati.”
When asked about the abolition of private property, which is being discussed as one of the themes of the ‘Great Reset’, Turkson vaguely refers to St. Ambrose and St. John Chrysostom, who says’ rich people have wealth so they can serve the poor and so the poor will have a way of appreciating them for their help. ‘
The cardinal also talks about how the inventions of some inventors like Edison and Einstein became ‘common property’ and ‘universal property’.
The rejection of ‘trickle-down’ economy, the cardinal calls for ‘inclusive capitalism’, which he describes as people with wealth who decide to push harder at the table when a new arrival who does not have wealth enters.
“So this is what we need to aim for, to sit tight to make room for other people,” Turkson confirms.
Davos talks about restoring the future, but without Pope Francis and without his religion.
In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed the cardinal president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (PCJP).
But in 2017, Pope Francis dissolved the PCJP and made Turkson the prefect of the new ‘superdicasterium’ to promote integral human development.
In 2020, Pope Francis appointed the Turkson coordinator of a Vatican task force in five groups to respond to the socio-economic outbreak of the coronavirus.
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