By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--December 6, 2015
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Dateline: Valley of Tears-It's Advent, when the Christian world awaits the coming of Christ. Everywhere, that is, except at the Vatican, where the Birth of the Christ Child is being forced into taking a back seat for a pagan 'Light Show, ' casting 3-D images of earth and animals onto the facade and cupola of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.
In this the second week of Advent--on the December 8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception no less--Pope Francis has invited climate-change partisans and population-control advocates to project on St. Peter's Basilica, a Climate Change Light Show on the Mother of God's most important feast day."The Vatican's spokesperson for the event, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the president of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, called the event "unique...for its genre and for the fact that it is being displayed for the first time on such a significant backdrop. (LifeSiteNews) "These illuminations will present images inspired of Mercy, of humanity, of the natural world, and of climate changes," Fisichella said. "Fisichella said that the light show on the Vatican is meant to link Pope Francis' environment encyclical 'Laudato si' with the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop21) currently underway in Paris. The Vatican has shown strong support for the conference. Having the show conclude the opening Year of Mercy celebrations also links the pope's message about "mercy" to fighting "climate change."Wasn't it only a week ago that the pontiff said that "Christmas is a charade?"
"The event, billed as "contemporary public art,", and being held so as "to inspire change around the climate crisis", is sponsored by organizations named after Greek and Roman pagan gods that push the climate change agenda and by an organization that directly funds abortions in developing countries." (LifeSiteNews)Styled to conclude the opening of the Year of Mercy celebrations, by a pope about whom many are now outright asking, "Is the pope still Catholic?", the light show at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome--the most important church in the Catholic world--is 21st century graffiti from the most unexpected of places.
"The main financial backer behind the event is the US-led World Bank Group via its Connect4Climate initiative. The World Bank, created in 1945 to rebuild a war-torn Europe, has a long history (here, here, or here) of relentlessly funding abortion and contraception programs in developing nations under the banner of "ending extreme poverty" and "boosting shared prosperity." Pro-life leaders have denounced the programs time and again as thinly veiled population control programs aimed at reducing populations considered by Western elites to be undesirable. The organization, through its World Bank Spiritual Unfoldment Society (SUS), also has ties to non-Christian religious practices where employees engage in transhumanistic "meditation sessions" that aim at "personal transformation through self-knowledge, understanding, and awakening higher consciousness." (LifeSiteNews) "Vulcan Inc., founded in 1986 by investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen, is a private company based out of Seattle, Washington, that "strives to create a new kind of future" by "upend[ing] conventional thinking." The company was deliberately named after the Roman god Vulcan, the deity of destructive fire, whose earliest known shrine existed in Rome at the foot of the Capitoline Hill, close by the Vatican. "Vulcan's website states that its founder thought the name seemed fitting for a company "whose mission was to find smart solutions for some of the world's biggest challenges." "Another partner of the event is Okeanos, an environmentalist foundation begun in 2007 by Dieter Paulmann with the purpose of raising awareness "concerning the various threats our oceans are facing." The foundation focuses on "planning, financing and implementation of projects that encompass positive change and make a difference." It rails against what it calls the "sins against climate committed by…the present generation in particular," which include "man-made environmental pollution (oil slicks, sewage, chemicals, CO2 production)" as well as "noise pollution (overly loud ships' engines, sonar experiments)." "The foundation is named after the Greek and Roman Titan god "Okeanos" who was held to be the divine personification of the sea whose fish in one hand and serpent in the other signified his gifts of bounty and prophecy. "Obscura Digital, the San Francisco-based organization putting on the actual show, has its name derived from the Latin root meaning "dark." The company specializes in creating "immersive experiences that will change the way you think about the world around you" using holographic projections, 3D animation, and dynamic visualization. "Obscura's team of artists, coders, builders, and technologists are masters of manipulation through light and sound. The organization has in the past (here and here) worked on climate change projects with the UN to show the "effect of human enterprise on the environment" and to issue a "call for global solutions." The organization's clients include Apple, Google, Disney, Vulcan Productions, Nike, Nasa, Facebook, and UNESCO."The pontiff's Jubilee Year of Mercy is turning out to be as big a crock as his claims that global warming and not Islamic terrorism is the world's biggest threat. Question now is, will the thousands of Catholic priests, including some of the ones many regard as their mentors continue on with this charade? Fathers ordained to serve Mother Church, your parishioners have been left reeling in shock, some in tears. Your pontiff, the Bishop of Rome is consorting with the World Bank Spiritual Unfoldment Society (SUS) which "also has ties to non-Christian religious practices where employees engage in transhumanistic "meditation sessions" that aim at "personal transformation through self-knowledge, understanding, and awakening higher consciousness." Lord, grant us mercy from a pope who puts paganism before the Holy Mother of God during Advent 2015; grant us mercy, too from his so-called 'Year of Mercy'. Meanwhile, all frustrations and tears can be vanquished by turning away from Pope Francis' 21st century garish graffiti in 3-D. Calling all Christians of the world: Starting on Tuesday, December 8, and carrying on through the rest of this Advent, take the words "Fall on your Knees, O hear the Angels' Voices" from the most profound 'O Holy Night,' literally. We wait for Jesus, not Pope Francis.
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