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Vatican Cardinal: “A New World Order is Gaining Ground”

November 21, 2008

By John-Henry Westen
 
ROME (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at the opening of the 23rd plenary assembly for the Pontifical Council for the Laity, the president of the Council, Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, warned, “The idea of creating a ‘new man’ completely detached from the Judeo-Christian tradition, a new ‘world order,’ a new ‘global ethic,’ is gaining ground.”
 
According to the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, the cardinal denounced the “dictatorship of relativism,” rampant in Western societies, in which there is a growing “anti-Christian attitude” that makes “attacks on Christians, and particular on Catholics, pass off as politically correct.”
 
Speaking of Christians today he said, “Our true problem is not being a minority, but rather having voluntarily become marginal, irrelevant, because of our lack of courage, so that we will be left alone, because of our mediocrity.”  “For Christians,” Cardinal Rylko added, “the moment has arrived to free themselves from a false inferiority complex … to be valiant witnesses of Christ.”
 
This is, he said, the “hour of the laity,” to take on their “responsibility in the diverse fields of public life, from politics to the promotion of life and family, from work to the economy, from education to the formation of youth.”
 
He warned, however, that such faithfulness would come at a personal cost.  “Whoever wants to live and act according to the Gospel of Christ has to pay a price, even in the highly liberal societies of the West,” he said.

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5 Responses to “Vatican Cardinal: “A New World Order is Gaining Ground””

  1. Doug Pruner on November 22nd, 2008 5:18 pm

    Serious students of the Bible are not surprised by the Cardinal’s comments. Paul prophesied such behavior, and more, in a letter to Timothy:

    2 Tim 3:1-5; Douay: Know also this, that in the last days shall come dangerous times. Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness, Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure more than of God: Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power thereof.

    There were many like this then, of course, but Paul certainly was no mere complainer. Notice the time frame he gives for the appearance of these things all together, in increasingly “dangerous times”: “in the last days”
    If so then the good news is we’re nearing the time when God steps in to right all these wrongs, and many other. Good news, because men have proven themselves unable to correct their own problems. Jeremiah 10:23.

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  3. Baronio on November 23rd, 2008 11:54 am

    After having praised the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the “man’s dignity” – finally some Prelates are now discovering that there is no rights for the Church nor liberty or fraternity once men disbelieve God… Is never too late!

  4. Assegid on November 23rd, 2008 4:41 pm

    What a powerful observation: “Our true problem is not being a minority, but rather having voluntarily become marginal, irrelevant, because of our lack of courage, so that we will be left alone, because of our mediocrity.” “For Christians,”

    What a powerful and prophetic utterance, and of course a serious message to Christians to be responsible and accountable to the Mission: “the moment has arrived to free themselves from a false inferiority complex … to be valiant witnesses of Christ.”

    May God give us the insight, courage, and wisdom it takes to be abled and relevant to the decaying world….

  5. William Mainers on November 23rd, 2008 6:34 pm

    I have heard all my life to be like Jesus ,how do we do that ? I mean I have read the Bible and do we use the sermon of the mount ? or what .
    To me Jesus was complex at times He would just walk by people in need and called a woman a dog and to get away from Him and other times he would go out of His way .He came to bring a sword ( the word) but it would be nice to find something that would be defined.Jesus was raised Jewish so do I study all the Jewish ways? He did .Do you see what I am saying ?

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