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Holy See envoy blasts UN agenda on gender

CWN - February 21, 2011

Speaking to members of the Communion and Liberation movement, the Holy See’s chief diplomat at UN offices in Geneva said that “the United Nations aspires to create a new international order and to do so it creates a new anthropology”-- “not the one given by nature,” says Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, “but the one chosen by the individual.”

The abandonment of words such as father, mother, husband, and wife from UN documents “represents an individualist ideology taken to the extreme and … inspires the guidelines of the employees of world governance,” he added.

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