Monday, November 6, 2017

Pope Francis Continues Push For One World Religion

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When I first started seeing headlines this week that claimed that Pope Francis said that "Muslim terrorism does not exist", I thought that it couldn't possibly be true. 

After all, who could possibly deny that Islamic radicals are engaged in terrorism? Within the last 30 days, there have been 127 Islamic terror attacks in a total of 25 different countries. 

And in 2016 global terror attacks set an all-time record high and were up 25 percent from the year before. 

Unfortunately, there are many world leaders that are so politically correct and that are so married to the idea that Islam is good that they cannot admit to themselves that radical Islamic terror is being fueled by radical Islamic beliefs. 

And in the case of Pope Francis, he is exceedingly careful never to say anything negative about Islam because it would greatly hinder his efforts to bring all of the major religions of the planet closer together.
Ever since the very beginning of his papacy, Pope Francis has been pushing for global unity in religious matters, global unity in economic matters and global unity in political matters. 

The following timeline of events comes from one of my previous articles...

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May 2016: Pope Francis welcomed one of the top Sunni clerics in the world to the Vatican, and he reportedly told the cleric that "our meeting is the message". 

And mainstream news outlets all over the planet clearly understood what was being communicated. For example, the Daily Mail article about this meeting was entitled "Pope embraces grand imam at historic Vatican meeting in a bid to bring the Catholic and Muslim churches together".

January 2016: The Vatican releases an extremely disturbing video in which Pope Francis declared that all of the major world religions are "seeking God or meeting God in different ways" and that ultimately "we are all children of God". 

The video also featured leaders from various major religions, and they are shown declaring fidelity to their particular gods. 

First, we see a female Buddhist cleric tell us "I have confidence in the Buddha", and that is followed by a Jewish rabbi declaring "I believe in God". 

As the video goes on, a Catholic priest announces "I believe in Jesus Christ", and last of all an Islamic leader boldly declares "I believe in God, Allah". 

November 2015: Pope Francis declared that fundamentalism, even Christian fundamentalism, is a "sickness" during remarks in which he stressed the similarity of the major religions.

September 2015: Pope Francis traveled to New York City to deliver a speech that kicked off a conference during which the United Nations unveiled a "new universal agenda" for humanity.

September 2015: During a stop at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Pope Francis stressed the unity between Christianity and Islam. These words were directly spoken by him...

I would like to express two sentiments for my Muslim brothers and sisters: Firstly, my greetings as they celebrate the feast of sacrifice. I would have wished my greeting to be warmer. My sentiments of closeness, my sentiments of closeness in the face of tragedy. The tragedy that they suffered in Mecca.

In this moment, I give assurances of my prayers. I unite myself with you all. A prayer to almighty god, all merciful.

July 2015: During a trip to Ecuador, Pope Francis spoke of the need for "a new economic and ecological world order" in which the wealth of the planet is "shared by everyone".

July 2015: Pope Francis denounced global capitalism and refers to its excesses as the "dung of the devil".

June 2015: Pope Francis called for "a new global political authority" that would have the resources necessary "to deal with the world's economic problems and injustices".

October 2014: Pope Francis publicly embraced the theory of evolution by making statements such as these...

-"When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so."

-"The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it."

-"Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve."

By fully embracing the theory of evolution, Pope Francis has aligned himself with the leftist social engineers that are seeking to merge humanity into a socialist new world order, and he has aligned himself against "fundamentalists" that believe that there is one true God that created the heavens and the earth.
June 2014: For the first time in the history of Catholicism, Pope Francis authorized "Islamic prayers and readings from the Quran" at the Vatican. In ancient times, this would have been considered blasphemy, but today nobody really even notices when something like this happens.

March 2013:

During his very first ecumenical meeting as Pope, Francis made it very clear that he believes that Christians and Muslims both "worship the one God"...

I then greet and cordially thank you all, dear friends belonging to other religious traditions; first of all the Muslims, who worship the one God, living and merciful, and call upon Him in prayer, and all of you. I really appreciate your presence: in it I see a tangible sign of the will to grow in mutual esteem and cooperation for the common good of humanity.

The Catholic Church is aware of the importance of promoting friendship and respect between men and women of different religious traditions - I wish to repeat this: promoting friendship and respect between men and women of different religious traditions - it also attests the valuable work that the Pontifical Council for interreligious dialogue performs.

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The evidence very clearly shows that Pope Francis is a globalist, and the globalists are absolutely convinced that this planet could be transformed into some sort of great progressive utopia if they could just get humanity to unite.

But when they are finally able to achieve their goal, it won't be a utopia at all. Instead, it will bring about the greatest tyranny that humanity has ever experienced under the rule of the Antichrist.

Whenever you deny the truth, you open yourself up for deception.

And everyone out there that chooses to believe that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism and that all religions are equally valid paths to the same God is opening the door wide to great deception.

In this day and age, it is imperative that we all learn how to think for ourselves and to boldly speak the truth - even if that means disagreeing with the Pope himself.
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OPINIONCATHOLIC CHURCHFri Oct 27, 2017 - 7:08 pm EST

Papal confidant claims Pope Francis has abolished hell, purgatory, heaven

 Eugenio Scalfari, , Heaven And Hell , Pope Francis , Sandro Magister
This article by Sandro Magister was originally publshed in L'Ezpresso Magazine and is republished with permission. Magister is an Italian journalist who has for many years specialized in religious news, in particular on the Catholic Church and the Vatican.  His reports, from a faithful Catholic perspective, have been considered exceptionally reliable and are widely read. In 2008, 2009, and 2010, he oversaw the publication of three volumes with the homilies of Benedict XVI. From 2010 to 2013 he was a consulting producer for TV 2000, the television channel of the Italian episcopal conference. See the rest of his bio here.

NOTE: There is a link for each of the Pope Francis quotes cited in this article that takes the reader to the source of the quote or otherwise verifies statements in the article.
October 27, 2017 (Sandro Magister) — In the important newspaper “la Repubblica” of which he is the founder, Eugenio Scalfari, an undisputed authority of Italian secular thought, last October 9 returned to speaking in the following terms about what he sees as a “revolution” of this pontificate, in comments by Francis that are derived from his frequents conversations with him:
“Pope Francis has abolished the places where souls were supposed to go after death: hell, purgatory, heaven. The idea he holds is that souls dominated by evil and unrepentant cease to exist, while those that have been redeemed from evil will be taken up into beatitude, contemplating God.”
Observing immediately afterward:
“The universal judgment that is in the tradition of the Church therefore becomes devoid of meaning. It remains a simple pretext that has given rise to splendid paintings in the history of art. Nothing other than this.”
It is seriously doubtful that Pope Francis really wants to get rid of the “last things” in the terms described by Scalfari.
There is in his preaching, however, something that tends toward a practical overshadowing of the final judgment and of the opposite destinies of blessed and damned.
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On Wednesday, October 11, at the general audience in Saint Peter’s Square, Francis said that such a judgment is not to be feared, because “at the end of our history there is the merciful Jesus,” and therefore “everything will be saved. Everything.”
In the text distributed to the journalists accredited to the Holy See, this last word, “everything,” was emphasized in boldface.
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At another general audience a few months ago, on Wednesday, August 23, Francis gave for the end of history an image that is entirely and only comforting: that of “an immense tent, where God will welcome all mankind so as to dwell with them definitively.”
An image that is not his own but is taken from chapter 21 of Revelation, but from which Francis was careful not to cite the following words of Jesus:
“The victor will inherit these gifts, and I shall be his God, and he will be my son. But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
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And again, in commenting during the Angelus of Sunday, October 15 on the parable of the wedding banquet (Matthew 22: 1-14) that was read at all the Masses on that day, Francis carefully avoided citing the most unsettling parts.
Both that in which “the king became indignant, sent his troops, had those murderers killed and their city burned.”
And that in which, having seen “one man who was not wearing the wedding garment,” the king ordered his servants: “Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness; there shall be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth.”
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On the previous Sunday, October 8, another parable, that of the murderous vine dressers (Matthew 21:33-43), had undergone the same selective treatment.
In commenting on the parable during the Angelus, the pope left out what the owner of the vineyard does to those farmers who killed the servants and finally the son: “He will put those wretches to a miserable death.” Much less did he cite the concluding words of Jesus, referring to himself as the “cornerstone”: “He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but when it falls on any one, it will crush him.”
Instead, Pope Francis insisted on defending God from the accusation of being vindictive, almost as if wanting to mitigate the excesses of “justice” detected in the parable:
“It is here that the great news of Christianity is found: a God who, in spite of being disappointed by our mistakes and our sins, does not go back on his word, does not stop, and above all does not avenge himself! Brothers and sisters, God does not avenge himself! God loves, he does not avenge himself, he waits for us to forgive us, to embrace us.”
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In the homily for the feast of Pentecost, last June 4, Francis argued, as he often does, against “those who judge.” And in citing the words of the risen Jesus to the apostles and implicitly to their successors in the Church (John 20:22-23), he intentionally cut them off halfway through:
“Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive, they will be forgiven.”
Omitting the following:
“Those you do not forgive, they will not be forgiven.”
And the fact that the truncation was deliberate is proven by its repititon. Because Francis had made the exact same deletion of the words of Jesus on the previous April 23, at the Regina Coeli of the first Sunday after Easter.
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Last May 12 as well, while visiting Fatima, Francis showed that he wanted to set Jesus free from his reputation as an inflexible judge at the end of time. And to do this he warned against the following false image of Mary:
“A Mary of our own making: one who restrains the arm of a vengeful God; one sweeter than Jesus the ruthless judge.”
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It must be added that the liberty with which Pope Francis cuts and stitches up the words of Sacred Scripture does not concern only the universal judgment. Deafening, for example, is the silence in which he has always shrouded Jesus’ condemnation of adultery (Matthew 19:2-11 and parallel passages).
In a surprising coincidence, this condemnation was contained in the Gospel passage that was read in all the churches of the world precisely on the Sunday of the beginning of the second session of the synod of bishops on the family, October 4, 2015. But neither in the homily nor at the Angelus on that day did Pope Francis make the slightest reference to it.
Nor did he make any reference to it at the Angelus of Sunday February 12, 2017, when that condemnation was once again read in all the churches.
Not only that. The words of Jesus against adultery also do not appear in the two hundred pages of the post-synodal exhortation “Amoris Laetitia.”
Just as no appearance is made in it by the terrible words of condemnation of homosexuality written by the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the Letter to the Romans.
A first chapter that was also read - another coincidence - at the weekday Masses of the second week of the synod of 2015. To tell the truth, those words are not included in the missal. But in any case, neither the pope nor anyone else ever cited them while discussions were being held at the synod about changing the paradigms of judgment on homosexuality:
"Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. They are gossips and scandalmongers and they hate God. They are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wickedness, and rebellious toward their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them" (Romani 1, 26-32).
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Moreover, at times Pope Francis even takes the liberty of rewriting the words of Sacred Scripture as he sees fit.
For example, in the morning homily at Santa Marta on September 4, 2014, at a certain point the pope attributed to Saint Paul these “scandalous” words: “I boast only of my sins.” And he concluded by inviting the faithful present to “boast” of their own sins, in that they have been forgiven from the cross by Jesus.
But in none of Paul’s letters can such an expression be found. The apostle instead says of himself: “If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of my weaknesses” (2 Corinthians 11:30), after having listed all the hardships of his life - the imprisonments, the floggings, the shipwrecks.
Or: “About myself I will not boast, except of my weaknesses” (2 Corinthians 12:5). Or again: “He said to me: ‘My grace is enough for you; strength is in fact made fully manifest in weakness.’ I will therefore gladly boast of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me” (2 Corinthians 12:9), with more references to the outrages, persecutions, anguish he has suffered.
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Coming back to the final judgment, Pope Benedict XVI also acknowledged that "in the modern era, the idea of the Last Judgement has faded into the background.”
But in the encyclical “Spe Salvi,” which he wrote entirely on his own, he forcefully reaffirmed that the last judgment is “the decisive image of hope.” It is an image that “evokes responsibility,” because “grace does not cancel out justice,” but on the contrary “the question of justice constitutes the essential argument, or in any case the strongest argument, in favour of faith in eternal life,” because “with the impossibility that the injustice of history should be the final word does the necessity for Christ's return and for new life become fully convincing.”
And again:
“Grace does not make wrong into right. It is not a sponge which wipes everything away, so that whatever someone has done on earth ends up being of equal value. Dostoevsky was right to protest against this kind of Heaven and this kind of grace in his novel ‘The Brothers Karamazov.’ Evildoers, in the end, do not sit at table at the eternal banquet beside their victims without distinction, as though nothing had happened.”
(English translation by Matthew Sherry, Ballwin, Missouri, U.S.A.)

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BLOGSCATHOLIC CHURCH, HOMOSEXUALITY Mon Oct 30, 2017 - 11:41 am EST

Fr. James Martin’s pro-LGBT spirituality is nothing more than ‘syrupy sweet depravity’

 Catholic , Homosexuality , James Martin
October 30, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- Fr. James Martin, SJ, is making stunning claims about why not a single reviewer has paid attention to the second half of his pro-LGBT book, Building a Bridge, ignoring what he considers to be “the more important part of the book.” 
Speaking recently at Washington’s Holy Trinity Church, Martin said, “Not one reviewer has mentioned the second half of [my] book.  Imagine reviewing Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ and just doing ‘War?’”  
Fr. Martin explains that while “The first half is an invitation to dialogue, the second half is an invitation to prayer.  It’s Scripture meditations, and prayers and reflection questions for the LGBT Catholic.”  
The Jesuit accuses his challengers of disrespecting the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of those who identify as LGBT.  The reality is that Fr. Martin is delegitimizing the authentic work of the Holy Spirit in the consciences of SSA and gender dysphoric who cry out to God for help and salvation, or who seek a deeper relationship with Him.

Outrageous Claims

“On the ‘Religious Right,’” wonders Martin, “why are online sites and reputable journals not looking at Part II?  
The Jesuit priest concludes:  
"One:  They don’t think LGBT people should have access to prayer or the Holy Spirit.”  
“Two: They don’t think LGBT people --what’s going on in their interior lives or in their prayer-- is worthwhile or worth listening to.”  
“Three:  They’re afraid of what LGBT prayer might tell them .... or what their own prayer about these passages … Zacheus and the Roman Centurion and the woman at the well.  It’s fascinating to me.   People are more comfortable with debate than they are with prayer.  But the second half of the book is the more important part of the book.”  
These are not reasoned explanations:  They are stunning accusations, impugning all who disagree with him as impeding the work of the Holy Spirit --the work of salvation-- in the lives of the same-sex attracted.  Three times, in rapid succession, Martin willingly bears false witness in order to bolster himself and his alien interpretations of the Gospel.   
Martin perhaps overlooks a more obvious reason:  His reflections and meditation passages are flawed, often starting off with wonderful scriptural truths, but directing readers to dangerous, ill-advised false conclusions.  

Meditation #1:  On Names and Naming 

Martin starts off well enough discussing the significance of God renaming Abram, “Abraham” and telling Moses that He is “I AM who I AM.”  But his questions depart from Scriptural truth, seeking to affirm same-sex attracted (SSA) readers of their ‘gay identity.’  
“When you think of your own sexual orientation, what word do you use?  Why?  Can you speak to God about this in prayer?”  
“For families, friends, and allies:  How did you feel when you first heard of your family member or friend name his or her sexuality.  Did that ‘naming’ change or deepen your relationship with that person?”  
Martin funnels readers toward a personal sense of “Gay” or “Lesbian” or “Bisexual” or Transgender” as their ‘identity’ while also nudging friends and family to accept that identity.  He makes no attempt to dissuade or offer alternative interpretations. 
Daniel Mattson, author of Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay, has reached a completely different conclusion than Fr. Martin, one firmly grounded in magisterial truth.
Mattson is a same-sex attracted Catholic author who Fr. Martin consistently avoids debating or even acknowledging, speaks of the “empty promises of coming out” that “leads to a belief in what is ultimately an unreal condition — it paints a false image of the human person and traps people into sexual identities that are disconnected with reality.” Mattson rejects sentimentality, which misleads so many gays and their supporters, and instead, like a laser, he focuses exclusively on known truth.
Martin rejects via omission the important truth Mattson points out:  “When a man or woman, a boy or girl, accepts the way of loneliness for Christ’s sake, there are cosmic ramifications. That person, in a secret transaction with God, actually does something for the life of the world. This seems almost inconceivable, yet it is true, for it is one part of the mystery of suffering which has been revealed to us.”

Meditation #2:  Different Gifts

Introducing St. Paul’s beautiful exposition on the gifts the Body Of Christ in 1 Corinthians 12, Martin notes, “St. Paul focuses on the parts of the body that are ‘less honorable,’” and that “Sometimes LGBT people are, tragically, made to feel that way.”
He asks, “Have LGBT people brought their gifts to your own life and your own ministry?  How do you recognize those gifts?  Has your ministry lost out on gifts because of prejudice?” 
Martin is appealing to the notion that those who are ‘gay’ or ‘transgender’ bring special gifts to the Church.  Whatever gifts and talents we Christians have to share with the Body of Christ, none spring from intrinsic human disorder.  These gifts are from the Holy Spirit.
Some SSA Catholics who are chaste now seek not to reject “LGBT” identity but to cherish and enshrine their “gayness” as a personal identity beyond male or female. They are proud to simultaneously call themselves “Gay and Catholic,” abandoning Church teaching that homoerotic desire and is intrinsically disordered. Though chaste, they prefer to celebrate being “gay” and to divine special gifts from it.
Fr. Martin goes a step further.  He affirms not only chaste Gays who view themselves as having been made ‘gay’ by God; He affirms practicing homosexuals and those who claim to be in ‘gay marriages.’ 

Meditation #5:  You Are “Wonderfully Made”

While Martin supplies a total of ten prompts for meditation and reflection, space limitations prevent comment on all.  
So I’ll skip to #5.  Most troubling to me, a same-sex attracted Catholic, is Fr. Martin’s explanation of Psalm 139, which was pivotal in my conversion as an 18-year-old college student.  The Psalmist explains that each of us is, ‘fearfully, wonderfully made,” and that God “knitted” us together in our mothers’ wombs. 
Martin wants his LGBT readers to conclude that God ‘wonderfully made them gay lesbian, bisexual and transgender, and for their friends and family to accept this as Scriptural truth.  
To me this is horrifying.  On the night of July 8, 1976, Psalm 139 saved this former 18-year-old kid who had begun to identify himself as ‘gay’ all the way down into the core of my being.  Reading Psalm 139 for the first time in my life, the Holy Spirit didn’t affirm my ‘gayness.’  Not at all.  On the contrary, the Holy Spirit set me free from a diabolical lie which, in our current age, seems to entangle, entrap and weigh down ever-increasing numbers of young men and women, boys and girls.  
The world wanted me for its own, but it lost me that night.  Psalm 139 pulled me back from the brink; Yet Fr. Martin uses Psalm 139 to nudge ‘LGBT Catholics’ over the edge.
I agree with Fr. Martin.  I wish more reviewers would address Part II of Building A Bridge.  His flawed meditations and Scripture interpretation reveal the syrupy sweet depravity of his mission.  
I am reminded of Job 32:2: “Who is this that obscures my plans  with words without knowledge?"

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Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, the head of the Pontifical Academy of Science, will preside over a global warming conference in November at the Vatican.
BLOGSCATHOLIC CHURCH, POPULATION CONTROL Thu Aug 3, 2017 - 9:03 am EST

Vatican to host another population control conference with pro-abortion speakers

 Biological Extinction Conference , Birth Control , Clmate Change , Jeffrey Sachs , Jerry Brown , John Schellnhuber , Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo , Peter Raven , Pontifical Academy Of Sciences , Pope Francis , Population Control , Sir Partha Dasgupta , Ted Turner , Vatican
ROME, Italy August 3, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The Pontifical Academy of Science (PAS) has announced another population control conference.
“Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility: Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health” will be held November 2-4 at the Vatican.       
The conference’s title obscures the questionable personal ideologies and professional objectives of a number of its slated participants.  
Participants include:

Professor John Schellnhuber

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John Schellnhuber is founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). He is considered one of the world’s leading climate scientists and one of the strongest advocates of the theory that the earth is undergoing catastrophic global warming.
Schellnhuber is also known for his advocacy of a one-world government. In order to avoid his catastrophic predictions for unchecked climate change, Schellnhuber proposes the need for indispensable forms of world governance – or in his own words, a “global democratic society” – to be organized within the framework of the United Nations. Schellnhuber says in his 2013 article “Expanding the Democracy Universe” that “global democracy might be organized around three core activities, namely (i) an Earth Constitution; (ii) a Global Council; and (iii) a Planetary Court.”
Schellnhuber has little patience for those who do not accept his scientific theories and conclusions. In a May 2014 interview with musician Pierre Baigorry, Schellnhuber claimed that sometimes politicians have to take citizens to task “with coercion” to overcome their own resistance to change.

Sir Partha Dasgupta

Dasgupta is a proponent of population control, lauding China’s Human Development Index despite that country’s brutal “family planning” policy. He is also a patron of Population Matters, formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust, that lobbies for a “sustainable population size,” including the “reversing of population growth” in many countries.
Dasgupta said, “We need to unravel the processes that led to the ills we are now facing. That is why the Vatican symposia involve natural and social scientists, as well as scholars from the humanities. That the symposia are being held at the Papal Academy is also symbolic. It shows that the ancient hostility between science and the church, at least on the issue of preserving Earth’s services, has been quelled.”

Peter Raven

Peter Raven is a biologist who specializes in plants, butterflies, and evolution. At the last PAS symposium, Raven said, "We need at some point to have a limited number of people, which is why Pope Francis and his three most recent predecessors have always argued that you should not have more children than you can bring up properly."
Raven was incorrect to claim that the three popes before Pope Francis agree with him on the "need at some point to have a limited number of people" so they can be raised "properly".

Jeffrey Sachs

Columbia University’s Jeffery Sachs, who co-hosted the Vatican’s 2015 conference on climate change, believes that abortion is a legitimate way to reduce the population.
Sachs made a plea for legalizing abortion as a cost-effective way to eliminate “unwanted children” when contraception fails in his 2008 book Commonwealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet.
He describes abortion as a “lower-risk and lower-cost option” than bringing a new human life to the world.
He also wrote that the “legalization of abortion reduces a country’s total fertility rate significantly, by as much as half a child on average,” and criticized former U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush for denying groups that provide and promote abortion any U.S. funding through the Mexico City Policy.
Sachs is listed as an author of the background note to a declaration adopted by scientists and religious leaders at the 2015 Vatican conference that validated the theory that human activity is changing the Earth’s climate. Unlike the declaration, the background note with a Vatican emblem at the head speaks of the world’s population as a problem.

U.S. politicians participating at the upcoming Vatican conference

A few political figures from the United States will also participate. All hail from California: U.S. Congressman Scott Peters; state Senator Kevin de León, president pro Tempore of the California State Senate; and California Gov. Jerry Brown, who will deliver a keynote address on the closing day of the event.  
All three are strong supporters of Planned Parenthood.

Archbishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo

Presiding over the event will be the head of the Pontifical Academy of Science, Archbishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo.
Sorondo has an anti-capitalist worldview and is opposed to traditional Church doctrine.
Sorondo’s connection to population control elites is clear, not only from his bringing them to the Vatican but also their feting him and having him sit on the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, an organization launched by then-U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. On the leadership council, alongside Sorondo, are Sachs and Ted Turner, two of the best-known promoters of coercive population control in the world. Turner held an event at the posh Harvard Club in New York City to celebrate Sorondo’s work on Sept. 25, 2015.
At the Biological Extinction Symposium, the Archbishop’s confounding statements regarding procreation were disconnected from Church principles. He said, "Many times, we don’t know exactly what is the doctrine of the Church.”

Past performance indicative of future behavior?

The last few PAS conferences have caused pro-life critics to point out that no strong orthodox Catholic voices have been present, and so views antithetical to church doctrine have been categorically asserted without anyone presenting Catholic corrections to their statements.
At one, Archbishop Sorondo himself promoted reducing family sizes, saying that “when you have education” women will only have one or two children instead of seven.  
One of the conference experts replied that “without having access to birth control, she will have more children than she wants.” “And that’s why it is not just education alone, it is a combination of education and birth control that brings fertility down.”
Nobody present at the conference contradicted him.

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