Statue of Paul VI in Milan

FROM Liber Accusationis by Abbé George de Nantes, a brief addressed to “Pope” Paul VI on March 28, 1973, accusing him of multiple heresies and the creation of a new Religion of Man:

At first, you speak of PEACE as though it were the fruit ripened by civilisation and by the United Nations. Your concern was restricted to the settling of various local conflicts which you regarded as sequels of the last World War. You were concerned to replace armed force with negotiation so that, with the establishment of peace and with the co-operation of all peoples, the world should reach a state of prosperity and happiness unknown before. Such an ideal was still very conservative. But before long, a new idea began to be mixed up with that of peace: that of JUSTICE. “Persuaded that peace can be built only upon justice, we must all make ourselves the advocates of justice. For the world has great need of justice and Christ wishes us to hunger and thirst after justice.” (Papal Discourse to the Council) But whenChrist blesses those who hunger and thirst after justice, it is of a different sort of justice that He speaks – of one directed towards God, of holiness: social justice is but a secondary result of this. So here too, you have misrepresented the Gospel in order to make it into the message of your own new-style, revolutionary messianism.

Once it has engaged in this track of justice, your thinking changes quickly from a conservative approach to a revolutionary one. Instead of remaining concerned with the aim of peace and the unheard of prosperity which it is to bring, you make its coming conditional on the prior attainment of justice. This is the dialectic that inspires your Encyclical Populorum Progressio (26th March 1967). Your interpretation (a Marxist one!) of the international situation shows a threatening prospect: either the well-to-do peoples will share their wealth with the disinherited or else the latter will resort to war. That, for you, is Justice – which you equate with Equality – with war as the only alternative!

From that time on you have persistently encouraged the greed of the peoples of the Third World by putting before them the concept of “development” as the prime and essential end of all their efforts, to be attained by exerting pressure upon the richer nations to share their wealth with them – or rather, to give back what they had stolen. When you adopted the catchword of Development, the new name for peace”, on the occasion of the Day of Peace, you adopted a crypto-Communist programme. For it implies that the condition of the underprivileged peoples is subhuman, intolerable, and is bound to resolve itself through war unless the well-to-do peoples provide a quick solution.

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