The
image of a lion is projected on the facade of St. Peter's Basilica as part of a
climate change light show on December 8.
‘Sacrilege’:
Catholic leaders react to Vatican’s ‘climate change’ light show!!
ROME, December 8, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Howling,
grunting, and roaring animals, along with images of overcrowded city centers,
depictions of pollution, and negative portrayals of industrialization, appeared
on the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica this evening during a much hyped “climate
change” light show.
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The show was the finale of the opening celebration for
the Year of Mercy declared by Pope Francis. The event was watched by tens of
thousands in St. Peter’s Square along with estimated millions worldwide through
online streaming.
The multi-million dollar show titled "Fiat Lux:
Illuminating Our Common Home" was created and funded by climate-change
partisans and population-control advocates with the goal to “educate and
inspire change around the climate crisis across generations, cultures,
languages, religions and class.” Along with images of the world and its
endangered animals, including lions, birds, apes, and whales, appeared New Age
symbolism associated with ancient pagan deities.
The show also took place on the most important Marian
feast day for Catholics, the Immaculate Conception, where Catholics celebrate
Mary being conceived in the womb of her mother Anne without the stain of
original sin.
Many pro-family leaders from around the world say they
are flabbergasted that the pope would allow St. Peter’s to be used as a
backdrop for promoting the controversial and contentious “climate change”
agenda.
Demonic
light show at the Vatican on the Holy day of Immaculate Conception of the
Blessed Virgin Mary!
"I am sorry that the facade of St. Peter's has
been turned into a propaganda stage for the scientific fraud known as
‘Catastrophic Man-Caused Global Warming,’” Steven Mosher, president of the
Population Research Institute, told LifeSiteNews.
"I am sick at the thought that this most sacred
space — St. Peter's Basilica — will be the backdrop for the further
dissemination of this fraud, whose ultimate goal is to impose a ‘Carbon Tax’ on
the developed countries. This tax will not only cripple global economic growth
and undermine democracy, its proceeds will be used to fund even more population
control programs in the developing world," he said.
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.”
“These illuminations will present images inspired of
Mercy, of humanity, of the natural world, and of climate changes,” he 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.”
Robert Royal, president of the Washington-based Faith
and Reason Institute and a prominent Catholic commentator, called it “seriously
wrong” to have a “radical environmental message” projected onto St. Peter’s.
“This is the kind of thing ideological politicians do,
like President Obama’s rainbow projection onto the White House after the
Supreme Court approved gay ‘marriage.’ The White House is the people’s house,
all the American people’s. St. Peter’s is even far more universal than that.”
“Projecting onto it a radical environmental message —
and one that has no chance of actually resulting in an international agreement,
given the unreality of the approach — seems to make the Church just one more
international NGO, something Pope Francis has explicitly warned it should not
be,” he told LifeSiteNews.
How
Newchurch of the Neworder honors the Immaculate Ever-Virgin and her Immaculate Conception!!
Voice of the Family co-founder John Smeaton said that
contrary to popular perception, the “environmental agenda” is tied to an
anti-human agenda.
“The environmental movement commonly regards
population growth as a threat. Developing nations are being flooded with
contraceptives and subjected to pressure to legalise abortion. Given that
contraception and environmentalism so often go hand-in-hand, it is deeply
troubling that current Vatican authorities have so strongly endorsed the
environmental agenda without taking an equally strong stance on the abortion
and contraception agenda which lies behind it.”
“If the Vatican issued similarly strong and
high-profile calls to world governments to end abortion, many lives could be
saved. The St. Peter’s light show is a clear demonstration of the tragic truth
that this papacy has the wrong priorities,” he told LifeSiteNews.
The event, billed as “contemporary public art,” was
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.
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.
Other partners include Vulcan Inc., 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.
Another partner is Okeanos, an environmentalist
foundation with the purpose of raising awareness “concerning the various
threats our oceans are facing.” The foundation rails against what it calls the
“sins against climate.” 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 signify bounty and prophecy.
Jellyfish
projected on St Peters Basilica
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.
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.”
Pagan occultism
St. Peter’s ‘climate change’ light show and its
prototype held in New York last August are bizarrely connected to pagan
occultism.
The shows director Travis Threlkel, founder and
creative director of Obscura, said in an August
interview when discussing the New York version of the show that was
projected onto the Empire State Building, that pagan deities were specifically
incorporated into the presentation. He said the show included the greek pagan
goddess Gaia, a Greek Mother Earth who has been appropriated by worshipers of
nature, along with Aya, a Babylonian mother goddess associated with the rising
sun and with sexual love.
It was at the New York show’s end that startling
images of the faces ofvarious
pagan goddesses were projected onto the building. Predominantly
displayed was an image of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and
destruction. Kali, who was depicted with a long blood red tongue and whose name
means “the black one,” promised wealth to those who satiated her lust for blood
by human sacrifice. Daily human sacrifices of young children were offered on
her altars in India until 200 years ago. She has since been culturally
appropriated by New Age spirituality as a kind of Mother Earth goddess.
“Android” Andrew Jones, the artist behind the image,
said at that time that he wanted to depict Mother Earth in her “fiercest form”
to draw attention to what might happen if people ignored the implications of
climate change.
The Vatican show included
artwork and computer-generated designs by Jones, but it is unknown at
this time what artwork was featured.
Jones, one of the world’s foremost digital painters
and projection artists, specializes in portraying terrifying images of Greek,
Roman and Eastern pagan deities. He said in an interview
last month that he turns to these gods and goddesses by means of
“psychedelic substances” (mind altering drugs) so that he can portray them
accurately. He said the “deities” are “actively involved” in guiding his hand
as he makes the work.
“These [drugs] are tools that grant portals and access
into different realms that I still haven’t fully been able to grasp or say that
I have uncovered all of their meanings. … They have evolved my ability to …
discover new and interesting combinations of energy and matter. Some have …
shown me greater nightmares than I could ever depict or wish to imagine ever
again.”
“These spirits and the deities that [the images]
represent [in India, Greece, etc.] are actively involved, enrolled, and
contributing to humans reinventing the visual vernacular of these beings as
time and technology evolves,” he said.
Jones said that
good art connects the viewer to something “mystical.” He said in a 2010 video interview that
a good reaction to his art happens when people “throw up, or urinate themselves,
or [release] any sort of bodily excrement.”
While it remains unclear at this point if any of
Jones’ pagan images whole or in part made their way onto St. Peter’s, various
symbols belonging to deities mentioned by the show’s director Threlkel did. For
instance, Aya’s symbol of the rising sun appeared at least on three occasions
throughout the show, most prominently at the beginning when a giant sun was
depicted rising upon St. Peter’s.
Catholic commentator Fr. John Zuhlsdorf wrote on his
blog that the event was “irreverent” and even a form of “sacrilege.”
“St. Peter’s is, without question, a sacred place and
object (a very large one, too!). It is, without question, dedicated by
the Church to sacred purposes. The use of this sacred building and place
(where St. Peter was martyred and buried, a pilgrimage place, etc. etc. etc.)
as a projection screen for mere secular purposes is irreverent treatment,” he
wrote.
Fr. Zuhlsdorf quoted the Catholic Dictionary which
defines sacrilege as the “irreverent treatment of sacred things, persons or
places, i.e., those dedicated by God or the Church to sacred purposes. It
is a sin against the virtue of religion, of its nature grave, but admitting
smallness of matter.”
“This has gone beyond ridiculous,” he said.
The priest said the image of the lion projected on to
St. Peter's made him think of a passage from St. Peter's first letter: "Be
sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth
about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that
the same affliction befalls, your brethren who are in the world" (1 Peter
5:8).
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