What the Pope thinks of the NeoCon New World Order (Racism and Hatred at it's finest)

"While appreciating the opportunities for economic growth and material
prosperity which this process offers, the Church cannot but express
profound concern that our world continues to be divided, no longer by
the former political and military blocs, but by a tragic fault-line
between those who can benefit from these opportunities and those who
seem cut off from them."


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http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2001/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20010723_president-bush_en.html
ADDRESS OF POPE JOHN PAUL II
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
H.E. GEORGE WALKER BUSH

Monday, 23 July 2001



Mr. President,

1. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you on your first visit since
you assumed the office of President of the United States. I warmly
greet the distinguished First Lady and the members of your entourage. I
express heartfelt good wishes that your presidency will strengthen your
country in its commitment to the principles which inspired American
democracy from the beginning, and sustained the nation in its
remarkable growth. These principles remain as valid as ever, as you
face the challenges of the new century opening up before us.

Your nation's founders, conscious of the immense natural and human
resources with which your land had been blessed by the Creator, were
guided by a profound sense of responsibility towards the common good,
to be pursued in respect for the God-given dignity and inalienable
rights of all. America continues to measure herself by the nobility of
her founding vision in building a society of liberty, equality and
justice under the law. In the century which has just ended, these same
ideals inspired the American people to resist two totalitarian systems
based on an atheistic vision of man and society.

2. At the beginning of this new century, which also marks the beginning
of the third millennium of Christianity, the world continues to look to
America with hope. Yet it does so with an acute awareness of the crisis
of values being experienced in Western society, ever more insecure in
the face of the ethical decisions indispensable for humanity's future
course.

In recent days, the world's attention has been focused on the process
of globalization which has so greatly accelerated in the past decade,
and which you and other leaders of the industrialized nations have
discussed in Genoa. While appreciating the opportunities for economic
growth and material prosperity which this process offers, the Church
cannot but express profound concern that our world continues to be
divided, no longer by the former political and military blocs, but by a
tragic fault-line between those who can benefit from these
opportunities and those who seem cut off from them. The revolution of
freedom of which I spoke at the United Nations in 1995 must now be
completed by a revolution of opportunity, in which all the world's
peoples actively contribute to economic prosperity and share in its
fruits. This requires leadership by those nations whose religious and
cultural traditions should make them most attentive to the moral
dimension of the issues involved.

3. Respect for human dignity and belief in the equal dignity of all the
members of the human family demand policies aimed at enabling all
peoples to have access to the means required to improve their lives,
including the technological means and skills needed for development.
Respect for nature by everyone, a policy of openness to immigrants, the
cancellation or significant reduction of the debt of poorer nations,
the promotion of peace through dialogue and negotiation, the primacy of
the rule of law: these are the priorities which the leaders of the
developed nations cannot disregard. A global world is essentially a
world of solidarity! From this point of view, America, because of her
many resources, cultural traditions and religious values, has a special
responsibility.

Respect for human dignity finds one of its highest expressions in
religious freedom. This right is the first listed in your nation's
Bill of Rights, and it is significant that the promotion of religious
freedom continues to be an important goal of American policy in the
international community. I gladly express the appreciation of the whole
Catholic Church for America's commitment in this regard.

4. Another area in which political and moral choices have the gravest
consequences for the future of civilization concerns the most
fundamental of human rights, the right to life itself. Experience is
already showing how a tragic coarsening of consciences accompanies the
assault on innocent human life in the womb, leading to accommodation
and acquiescence in the face of other related evils such as euthanasia,
infanticide and, most recently, proposals for the creation for research
purposes of human embryos, destined to destruction in the process. A
free and virtuous society, which America aspires to be, must reject
practices that devalue and violate human life at any stage from
conception until natural death. In defending the right to life, in law
and through a vibrant culture of life, America can show the world the
path to a truly humane future, in which man remains the master, not the
product, of his technology.

Mr. President, as you carry out the tasks of the high office which the
American people have entrusted to you, I assure you of a remembrance in
my prayers. I am confident that under your leadership your nation will
continue to draw on its heritage and resources to help build a world in
which each member of the human family can flourish and live in a manner
worthy of his or her innate dignity. With these sentiments I cordially
invoke upon you and the beloved American people God's blessings of
wisdom, strength and peace.


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