UNITED STATES
The Open Tabernacle: Here Comes Everybody
Posted on September 13, 2014 by Betty Clermont
Pontificates have common and particular geopolitical aspirations for increasing the power of the Catholic Church. The current pope and his two predecessors formed and maintain the U.S. episcopate as a politically motivated body who, in support of the Republican Party, remained silent on immoral military invasion, torture and domestic slaughter by firearms but went into paroxysms of outrage over birth control.
John Paul II allied with the Reagan administration against the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe and in support of military dictatorships in Latin America.[1] The Eurocentric Benedict XVI tried to restore some deference previously enjoyed by the Church on that continent and concentrated on Africa, which he called the “lung of the Church,” mindful of the West African oil boom. Now, with one of their most influential and powerful pontiffs in history, the Vatican has undertaken a most ambitious project: incursion into Asia, the economic powerhouse and home to half the world’s population.
The first indication of the Vatican’s new direction was the appointment in July 2013 of George Yeo to one of the commissions organized to study Vatican finance and his later assignment to the new Vatican Council of the Economy along with Hong Kong Cardinal John Tong Hon. Yeo is the first layman from Asia given an important position in the Vatican. He graduated from Cambridge University and Harvard Business School and is a former Minister of Finance for Singapore and a brigadier-general in the Singapore Armed Forces. He is a director of AIA Group Ltd, based in Hong Kong with offices in Taiwan, China, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. In addition, Yeo was a visiting scholar to Peking University and remains a visiting scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He chairs the International Advisory Panel of India’s Nalanda University and is on the advisory board of Harvard Business School and Opus Dei’s IESE Business School.
The Australian (Pacific Rim) Cardinal George Pell is now the tsar of all Vatican finance and administration. After becoming an archbishop in 1996, Pell invited Opus Dei to establish themselves in Melbourne and then Sydney when he became head of that archdiocese in 2001.
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