Speaking of How the Main Stream Media Mangles Things

Compare this headline & openning paragraph from the AP story about Papa Benedetto's annual address to the Vatican Diplomatic Corp. Nowhere in the AP story will you read that the real thrust of the Pope's words was a condemnation of abortion. Instead they try & paint the Pope as being on the same page as the radical climate change anti-life gang.

Nor will you see anything in the AP article about the Pope's decrying relativism once again. But as you will note from this quote from the address (emphasis added by me) you can understand why the press would be reluctant: " Sadly, in certain countries, mainly in the West, one increasingly encounters in political and cultural circles, as well in the media, scarce respect and at times hostility, if not scorn, directed towards religion and towards Christianity in particular. It is clear that if relativism is considered an essential element of democracy, one risks viewing secularity solely in the sense of excluding or, more precisely, denying the social importance of religion. But such an approach creates confrontation and division, disturbs peace, harms human ecology and, by rejecting in principle approaches other than its own, finishes in a dead end." I also put emphasis on the ecology comment as it again points out that he is attacking abortion & other things promoted by the culture of death.

But that is not the only thing he attacks that the MSM isn;t comfortable with. Papa Benedetto goes on to say (again emphasis mine): "To carry our reflection further, we must remember that the problem of the environment is complex; one might compare it to a multifaceted prism. Creatures differ from one another and can be protected, or endangered, in different ways, as we know from daily experience. One such attack comes from laws or proposals which, in the name of fighting discrimination, strike at the biological basis of the difference between the sexes. I am thinking, for example, of certain countries in Europe or North and South America. Saint Columban stated that: "If you take away freedom, you take away dignity" (Ep. 4 ad Attela, in S. Columbani Opera, Dublin, 1957, p. 34). Yet freedom cannot be absolute, since man is not himself God, but the image of God, God’s creation. For man, the path to be taken cannot be determined by caprice or willfulness, but must rather correspond to the structure willed by the Creator." In other words, no gay marriages.

At least the Wall Street Journal did a more balanced look at the Pope's speech. The article entitled Pope Speaks on Creation opens with "Pope Benedict linked the Catholic Church's opposition to gay marriage to concern about the environment, suggesting that laws undermining "the differences between the sexes" were threats to creation."

Papa Benedetto didn't say anything different than he did in his 2010 World Day of Peace message or in his Encyclical Caritas in Veritate. But for the media to report the truth wouldn't fit in with their part in aiding & abetting the promotion of the culture of death.

Here then is the openning of the AP story followed by the entire story from LifeSiteNews. The LifeSiteNews article includes a link to the Vatican website so you can read the entire speech for yourself & see what the Pope really said in comparrison to how the AP perverted it to push their agenda.

Pope Denounces Failure to Forge New Climate Treaty

Pope Benedict XVI denounced the failure of world leaders to agree to a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen last month, saying Monday that world peace depends on safeguarding God's creation.

Pope Benedict Reframing Environment Issues to Include Humanity, Born and Unborn

By Hilary White, Rome correspondent
ROME, January 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The protection of the environment must be connected to the protection of human life, particularly the unborn, said Pope Benedict XVI today. In his annual address to the Vatican diplomatic corps, Pope Benedict XVI attempted to disassociate concerns for the environment from the anti-human population control ideologies that often characterise the environmentalist movement.
Referring to his Message for the 2010 World Day of Peace in which he urged “all persons of good will ... to protect creation,” Pope Benedict said, “It is proper, however, that this concern and commitment for the environment should be situated within the larger framework of the great challenges now facing mankind.”
“If we wish to build true peace, how can we separate, or even set at odds, the protection of the environment and the protection of human life, including the life of the unborn?”
The pope referred to the claims made by many in the international population control movement that human population will outstrip food supplies. Recalling an address following the recent Summit on Food Security of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the pope said that “the world has enough food for all its inhabitants provided that selfishness does not lead some to hoard the goods which are intended for all.”
During that summit in October last year, FAO chief Dr. Jacques Diouf said that "food security" is possible in Africa right now without the reduction of population. What is needed, he said, is the political will to achieve it. The reform of political systems, said Diouf, was the solution. “Transparency ... the application of law by an independent justice” and peace will create an environment where food production and distribution can be increased.
Pope Benedict reiterated Dr. Diouf’s point, saying, “I would like to stress again that the protection of creation calls for an appropriate management of the natural resources of different countries and, in the first place, of those which are economically disadvantaged.”
He urged world leaders to look at the root causes of environmental destruction, saying that it and the global economic crisis are related to what he called a “current self-centred and materialistic way of thinking.”
The causes of the worlds crises are “of the moral order,” the pope said, and urged the creation of a “great program of education” that would promote a change of thinking and “new lifestyles.”
He decried the secularist mentality that wants in many places to exclude religious ideas from this effort to reshape the world, saying that the role of the “community of believers” must be recognised.
“Sadly, in certain countries, mainly in the West, one increasingly encounters in political and cultural circles, as well in the media, scarce respect and at times hostility, if not scorn, directed towards religion and towards Christianity in particular.”
“It is clear that if relativism is considered an essential element of democracy, one risks viewing secularity solely in the sense of excluding or, more precisely, denying the social importance of religion.”
The bias against religious ideas, he said, “creates confrontation and division, disturbs peace, harms human ecology” and “finishes in a dead end.”
The pope also said he “deplores” terrorism, the proliferation of nuclear armaments, the use of agriculture for the narcotics trade, and the “apparent powerlessness” of nations to stop these as well as the “indifference, amounting practically to resignation, of public opinion worldwide.”

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Added 12 Jan 2010 @ 2:42 am: Maybe the AP should have just used the Vatican summary found in this video. Yeah, I know they wouldn't because not only does it represent things accurately, which the MSM doesn't want. While the AP article did allude to it, the video also points out how Papa Benedetto mentions it isn't the West that has done the real damage, it was done in Eastern Europe under Communism (& still is in China). & to point out another way that socialism failed just doesn't fit into the "culture of death" agenda.

Here is the exact quote from Papa Benedetto's address with emphasis added by me again: "Twenty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the materialistic and atheistic regimes which had for several decades dominated a part of this continent, was it not easy to assess the great harm which an economic system lacking any reference to the truth about man had done not only to the dignity and freedom of individuals and peoples, but to nature itself, by polluting soil, water and air?"

PS: Note that many of the same people who were running things in these communist regimes are now working w/ the green movement. Once again, why? Not to protect the environment. If you take an honest look at what they are doing you will see that it is a backdoor attempt to regain power & destroy capitalism. Do you really think they would actually maintain the protection of the environment if they again gained control? No they are attempting to reintroduce socialism which works hand in hand with the culture of death. If you doubt me then look at Stalin, Mao or Hitler remember the full Name of the Nazi party was National Socialist) for some prime examples of how socialism/communism spreads death, not life.

Also note that the AP article fails to mention how the Pope decried the Muslim attack on the Coptic Church on the Eve of Orthodox Christmas (6 Jan).