Another speaker at the UN
This one got little attention.
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the UN, called the General Assembly to the noble intentions of its founding charter.
“The more the interdependence of peoples increases”, the archbishop went on, “the more the necessity of the United Nations becomes evident”, as an organisation “capable of responding to the obstacles and increasing complexity of relations between peoples and nations. … The United Nations will advance toward the formation of a true family of nations to the extent that it assumes the truth of the inevitable interdependence among peoples, and to the extent that it takes up the truth about the human person, in accordance with its Charter”.
Referring then to “the nature of development and the role of donor and recipient countries”, Archbishop Migliore noted that “true development necessarily involves an integral respect for human life which cannot be disconnected from the development of peoples. Unfortunately in some parts of the world today, development aid seems to be tied rather to the recipient countries’ willingness to adopt programmes which discourage demographic growth of certain populations by methods and practices disrespectful of human dignity and rights. …Yet such a practice is by its nature not one of reciprocity but imposition, and to predicate the decision to give development aid on the acceptance of such policies constitutes an abuse of power”.
Which is a very polite way of saying stop exporting abortion and contraception around the world under the guise of humanitarian relief and aid.
