MEET THE POPE’S BILDERBERGER GURU
Prominent adviser boasts exceptional globalist credentials
by Jerome Corsi
www.wnd.com
NEW YORK – Pope Francis’ affinity for global governance was evident during his recent trip to the United States, with his remarks on his arrival at the White House echoing his embrace of the global-warming agenda in his first encyclical, “Laudato Si,” and his historic speech to the United Nations endorsing the U.N.’s new Agenda 2030.
Behind the pope’s proclamations is a powerful Vatican adviser who is highly regarded among global governance advocates, Peter Sutherland, a non-executive chairman of Wall Street investment banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs who served as chairman of oil giant BP through 2009.
Sutherland’s globalist credentials are exceptional.
Born in Ireland, where he also served as attorney general, he was appointed to the European Commission in 1985 and headed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which has evolved today into the World Trade Organization.
Later, he was appointed to the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group and served as the honorary chairman of the Trilateral Commission.
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In addition to his global governance credentials, Sutherland is one of an estimated 100 elite Papal Knights within the Roman Catholic lay religious society Knights of Malta and a member of Opus Dei.
In his 1999 book, “Their Kingdom Come,” Canadian financial journalist Robert Hutchinson characterized Opus Dei as a secret society of international bankers, financiers and businessman whose goal critics have characterized as using the influence of the Catholic Church and its largely tax-exempt worldwide network to advance the aims of global government.
‘I’m not a leftist’
On Sept. 22, when flying to the United States for the first time, Pope Francis assured journalists he is not a socialist, insisting his teachings “on economic imperialism” are “the social doctrine of the church.”
Similarly, in defending his 2013 apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the Gospel”), a treatise radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh attacked as “pure Marxism,” Pope Francis castigated the “new idolatry of money.”
He told the Italian newspaper La Stampa the “ideology of Marxism is wrong,” though he acknowledged he had met many Marxists in his life “who are good people.”
Yet, when it came time to reform the Vatican Bank, Francis appointed Sutherland as his adviser to Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, the Vatican’s new name for the Vatican Bank.
Sutherland’s influence on the pope’s thinking is probably nowhere more clear than on the issue of refugees and international immigration.
‘The world’s responsibility’
In February, the Vatican approved Sutherland’s election as president of the International Catholic Migration Commission, a position he holds while serving as the U.N. special representative of the secretary-general for international migration.
On Oct. 5, Sutherland ruffled feathers with an interview published by the United Nations in which he claimed the refugees currently flooding Europe from Syria and the Middle East are the responsibility of the world under the United Nation’s 1951 Refugee Convention.
“They’re the responsibility of the United States, of Canada, of Latin America and of Asia, as well as Europe. Proximity doesn’t define responsibility,” Sutherland said. “The world has to get its act together with regard to what is happening in North Africa.”
Sutherland’s ideas on migration trace back to an interview he gave the BBC in June 2010 in which he said the European Union should “do its best to undermine” the “homogeneity of its member states, arguing that the future prosperity of many EU states depended upon them becoming multicultural.”
The BBC further reported that Sutherland told a House of Lords committee that migration was a “crucial dynamic for economic growth” in some EU nations, “however difficult it might be to explain this to the citizens of those states.”
Sutherland, according to the BBC, gave a lecture to the London School of Economics, where he is also chairman, arguing there was a “shift from states selecting migrants to migrants selecting states” and the EU’s ability to compete at a “global level” was at risk.
He added that the EU states should stop targeting “highly skilled” migrants, insisting that “at the most basic level individuals should have a freedom of choice” about whether to come and study or work in another country.
‘Hearts of Pilgrims’
In the speech he gave in a midday prayer service to the United States Bishops at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 23, Pope Francis’ openly embraced Hispanic immigrants in the United States, not distinguishing between legal and illegal immigration.
“My second recommendation has to do with immigrants,” he said at the end of his speech, seemingly mindful that he shares his native Spanish language with the millions of Hispanic immigrants. “I ask you to excuse me if in some way I am pleading my own case.
The pope said the Roman Catholic Church in the United States “knows like few others the hopes present in the hearts of these ‘pilgrims.’”
“From the beginning you have learned their languages, promoted their cause, made their contributions your own, defended their rights, helped them to prosper and kept alive the flame of their faith,” he said.
“Even today, no American institution does more for immigrants than your Christian communities,” the pope stressed. “Now you are facing this stream of Latin immigration which affects many of your dioceses. Not only as the Bishop of Rome, but also as a pastor from the South, I feel the need to thank and encourage you,” the pope said.
“Perhaps it will not be easy for you to look into their soul; perhaps you will be challenged by their diversity,” he continued. “But know that they also possess resources meant to be shared.
“So do not be afraid to welcome them,” he concluded. “Offer them the warmth of the love of Christ and you will unlock the mystery of their heart. I am certain that, as so often in the past, these people will enrich America and its Church.”
The Golden Rule
The next day, addressing a joint session of Congress, Francis’s remarks on refugees and migration mirrored comments made by Sutherland.
“Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War,” the pope said, referring to refugees from Syria and the Middle East. “This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.
“On this continent, too, thousands of persons are led to travel north in search of a better life for themselves and for their loved ones, in search of greater opportunities,” he continued, referring to Hispanic immigration to the United States.
“Is this not what we want for our own children?” he asked. “We must not be taken aback by their numbers, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation.”
Concluding the thought, Francis quoted from Matthew 7:12, evoking the Golden Rule.
“To respond in a way which is always humane, just and fraternal,” he said. “We need to avoid a common temptation nowadays: to discard whatever proves troublesome. Let us remember the Golden Rule: ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’”