UPDATED 26 October 2011 (Vatican focus on global financial reform / authority, need for ethics – avoids addressing secular corruption as we suggested in below letter sent January 2011)
Penguin: Vatican Calls for World Government…Oopps
Vatican, Ethics, & Truth I (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Vatican, Ethics, & Truth II (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Occupy Wall Street’s Most Unlikely Ally: The Pope
Vatican Breaks Bread (Sort Of) With Occupiers
Cardinal Turkson: Beyond Wall Street
UPDATED 18 June 2011 (Turkey Rising, Truth, Convergence of Science & Religion)
Turkey Rising–21st Century an Ottoman Century?
Catholic Church Getting Serious About “Truth”
Review: God and Science–Coming Full Circle
Review: The Beginning of All Things–Science and Religion
Review: Questions of Truth–Fifty-one Responses to Questions About God, Science, and Belief
UPDATED 10 February 2011 (All Other Assisi Links)
Seven Answers–Robert Steele in Rome
Egypt & Jordan: Muslim & Christian Side by Side
Revolution & Secession: The Game is ON!
Revolution Kickstarted by Facebook Generation
Assisi, Egypt, US Hypocrisy, Global Revolution
Reference: Correspondence on Assisi Intelligence
Reference: Intelligence for the Spirit of Assisi
ON INTELLIGENCE: Open Letter to the President
Pope prays for the ‘one human family' desired by Christ, CNA 16 January 2011
Hindus have applauded ‘one human family' message of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, MeriNews 16 January 2011
Pope Benedict XVI to hold religious peace summit BBC, 1 January 2011
Speaking in St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Pope Benedict said the aim of the summit would be to “to solemnly renew the effort of those with faith of all religions to live their faith as a service for the cause of peace”.
Benedict XVI calls religious leaders to renew commitment to peace Catholic News Agency, January 1, 2011
Benedict Announces Meeting of Faiths New York Times, January 1, 2011
The Virgin Truth–Secular Inter-Faith Global Intelligence
20 Jan Letter as Sent 3.0 (5 Pages) Directly to Vatican, Copies to Various
16 Jan Draft Letter 2.0 (4 Pages) Proposing Secular/Inter-Faith Global Grid for Truth
Catholic Church Specifics
15 Jan Vatican appoints Protestant as scientific body's head
Core Reference on Cultural Engineering
Reference: Intersections & Cultural Engineering
Phi Beta Iota: The above reference is most interesting for placing cultural engineering–something that religions do–as more fundamental and essential than social engineering–something that governments and corporations do.
Core Reference on Peace and Persecution Today
17 Dec PEACE 2011 Fundamentalism and relativism, enemies of religious freedom and peace (SperoNews)
Prior Reference to Spirit of Assisi (Benedict XVI)
Witnessing by Prayer, America The National Catholic Weekly, John Borelli, October 23, 2006
‘Reformulating' the spirit of Assisi: Pope affirms peace summit, but wary of relativism, says Sant'Egidio leader National Catholic Reporter, September 15, 2006
DVD Reluctant Saint Francis of Assisi (2006)
Book by Donald Spotto, The Reluctant Saint (2003)
Peace Prayer Attributed to But NOT by St. Francis of Assisi
1993 GOD, MAN, & INFORMATION: COMMENTS TO INTERVAL IN-HOUSE”
PRIOR SUMMITS:
2002 (John Paul II)
DAY OF PRAYER FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD, ASSISI, 24 January 2002 Liturgy Document
Day of Prayer for Peace in the World, Assisi 24 January 2002, Photo Gallery (15 Photos)
1999 (St. Peter's Basilica, inter-faith assembly)
A Message of Tolerance, Associated Press, Ellen Knickmeyer, October 28, 1999
1993 (John Paul II)
To Bishops and representatives of Churches, Christian Ecclesial Communities, Judaism and Islam in the Sacred Convent of Saint Francis (January 9, 1993) [Italian] [English]
1986 (John Paul II)
Address of John Paul II to the Represenatives of the Christian Churches and Ecclesial Communities and of the World Religions, Pastoral visit to Perugia and Assisi, 27 October 1986
What Should We Make of Assisi 1986? Society of St Piux X District of Asia February 2002
Rorate-Caeli Catholics Against Inter-Faith Dialogue (1 Jan 2011)
CURRENT Reactions
Note: Many Catholics are violently against inter-faith reconciliation as was the Pope himself as a Cardinal. These are complex times, and religions waging asymmetric war have joined failed states and Cold War states as part of the problem. While the Pope is assuredly correct with respect to the persecution of Christians, in reality the continuous sustained attacks on Muslims by Western powers and their allied dictators are equal cause for alarm. What comes across to us is that as much as inter-faith dialog and deliberation is necessary, the Church has a great deal of truth & reconciliation to do internally before it is fully fit to engage other faiths.
4 Jan [Christians] New Target for Genocide (FrontPageMag)
4 Jan John Paul II to be Beatified in 2011? (National Catholic Register)
3 Jan Pope Focuses on Christian Persecution for 2011 World Day of Prayer (Christian Post)
2 Jan Good Lord, not an Assisi gathering again! (Mundabor's Blog)
Terms of Reference–And Predictable Disagreement
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
Parliament of the World's Religions
Ecumenical vs. Anti-Ecumenical 101
Inter-Faith Pluralism, Religious Tolerance, Global Ethic
Expulsion Edicts (Christians, Jews, and Muslims)
Eastern Schism & Western Schism
Spirit of Vatican II from 1962 & Catholic Dissenters
First Non-Italian Pope 1978 & Year of the Three Popes
Roma People (Gypsies) as Truth-Teller
Phi Beta Iota: Peace depends on trust, trust depends on truth, and truth comes with transparency. E Veritate Potens — From Truth, We the People Are Made Powerful [One with God]. Public intelligence in the public interest is what the religions of the world can focus on: doing for the public what governments and corporations will not do…eradicating both corruption and scarcity, educating the five billion poor one cell call at a time so as to create infinite wealth that translates into a prosperous world at peace. Pray, but verify.
See Also:
History of Religion in 90 Seconds (Live Graphic)
Review: Surrender to Kindness (One Man’s Epic Journey for Love and Peace)
Liberation Theology (Wikipedia)
Faith-Based Diplomacy–Trumping Realpolitik
Religion, The Missing Dimension of Statecraft
Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Douglas Johnston
A More Secure World Our Shared Foundation (United Nations)
HIGH NOON: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them (J. F. Rischard)
Reference: Infinite Wealth for All
Reference: Strategic Analytic Model for Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
Review: Acts of God–The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
Review: Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution
Review: Peace–A History of Movements and Ideas
Review: The Celestine Prophecy
Review: The Varieties of Scientific Experience–A Personal View of the Search for God
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Dialog for Truth & Reconciliation
Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Positive)
Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Negative)
