Our New Governor-General...Friend or Foe?

By Randy Pearson

NZ Catholic, the RC fortnightly newspaper, has done a front page article about their co-religionist, Fijian-Indian, Anand Satyanand, D.C.N.Z.M P.C.N.Z.M, who , according to their article “will become New Zealand’s, first Catholic Governor-General when he takes over from Dame Sylvia Cartwright in August . . . born and raised in Auckland (he) attended Sacred Heart College in Glen Innes . . .”, (No. 238, S3) . The Government House Public Affairs Officer, Stefan Wolf, recently confirmed (29.9.2006) that the Governor-General is indeed both a Roman Catholic and also a practising member of that religion.NZ’s 19th Governor-General, Anand Satyanand (GGAS), is the personal representative of our country’s Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II of New Zealand, and by convention, our Head of State and her representative, is supposed to be non-partisan, one of the distinctive features of our type of democracy (constitutional monarchy). But the recent appointment of this Roman Catholic lawyer, former judge and ombudsman, to the position of Governor-General, creates an impossible situation for our country.As a Roman Catholic, GGAS is bound to believe a number of things that must impact negatively upon the well-being and freedom of the NZ people.According to the official teaching of the religion of which GGAS is a member, he is bound to believe; -YOU, the individual Kiwi, do not have the freedom to choose your own religion.1 -The RC religion should be the only religion of New Zealand.2-Kings, Queens, Princes, Presidents, Governor-Generals, rulers and Ministers are SUBORDINATE to, and SUBJECT TO, the Pope in Rome.3 -When there is any disagreement between NZ’s civil Law and the laws of GGAS’s church, then the Roman Catholic Church Law MUST ALWAYS PREVAIL.4-GGAS’s religion also states that his church is allowed to USE FORCE (directly or indirectly) to obtain its ends.5 These are FACTS that are drawn directly from the R.C. church’s own official literature! GGAS (and every other R.C. politician, e.g. Jim Anderton, Peter Dunn, et al) is required to give his FIRST ALLEGIANCE to a foreign power (the Vatican State) and NOT to our Head of State and the NZ nation. This is because the Pope of Rome is not just the spiritual head of the RC church but is also the POLITICAL head of a FOREIGN STATE. That is why the Pope is received as a Head of State on his visits to other countries. Every pope, including Joseph Ratzinger the present one, has these TWO offices. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SEPARATE THEM. The papacy calls these the “two swords”, Temporal Power and Spiritual Power.6,7Therefore, GGAS’s position involves an impossible compromise.The two foremost RC authorites in NZ, Archbishop Emeritus of Wellington, Cardinal Thomas S. Williams ONZ DD, and the previous Papal Nuncio (Vatican Ambassador in NZ) Archbishop Thomas White, have confirmed that every individual Roman Catholic in the 280 Catholic parishes in NZ, INCLUDING our Governor-General, must give their first loyalty to the Pope in Rome. The papal nuncio told the NZ Beacon Editor that the Decrees and Canon Laws of the RC church are “irreformable doctrine” and apply today even though some of these laws are hundreds of years old.For example, even though the Council of Trent was in 1546, a recent pope stated just in 1963 that the Council was to be “entirely accepted”. 8It is because of these very reasons of impossibly-conflicting loyalties that British Laws, in the Bill of Rights and Acts of Settlement, PROHIBIT any Roman Catholic taking the English throne. (In fact, each ascending Monarch (including the present Queen HM Elizabeth II) is required to take an oath to protect the Protestant religion and also make a solemn declaration and profession of the Protestant religion.10As a practising Roman Catholic, Governor-General Anand Satyanand, D.C.N.Z.M, P.C.N.Z.M, believes all the above points (1–10) Our New Governor-GeneralFriend or Foe?...and is thus bound to submit to a power foreign to our nation whenever any difference of opinion, purpose or ideology occurs, and not only so but by profession of his innermost being is opposed to the very form of democratic government our country has chosen and which it operates by the will of the nation.Let Governor-General Anand Satyanand give a formal and public oath and undertaking to the people of New Zealand that he will make his first allegiance to this nation and not to the foreign state of the Vatican or else please step down immediately from his position. Notes; - 1. Syllabus of Errors Pope IX No. 15 2. ibid. No. 773. ibid. No. 544. ibid. No. 425. ibid. No. 246. Pope Boniface VIII stated “the spiritual sword is wielded BY the Church (of Rome), the material one FOR the Church”. Pope Gregorius IX stated “the Pope is lord and master of the UNIVERSE; of things as well people”7. Council of Trent, Vatican I and Vatican II councils, “The Christian Faith in the Doctrinal Documents of the Catholic Church” by Nuener & Dupuis, Christian Classics 1975, and “Enchiridion Symbolorum” by Denziger & Benoit.8. Pope John XXIII the Second said “I do accept entirely all that has been decided and declared at the Council of Trent”.9. Act. 1, William and Mary, cap. 2. Sec. ii., 1689 states – “Whereas it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of the Protestant Kingdom to be governed by a Popish Prince or by any King or Queen marrying a Papist. . . .Every person who is or shall be reconciled to, or shall have communion with, the See or Church of Rome, or shall marry a Papist, shall be excluded and be forever incapable to inherit, possess, or enjoy the Crown or Government of this Realm and Ireland; and in every such case the people of these realms shall be and are hereby released of their allegiance”.10. ”I do solemnly, and in the presence of God profess, testify, and declare that I am a faithful Protestant, and that I will, according to the true intent of the enactments which secure the Protestant succession to the Throne of my Realm, uphold and maintain the said enactments to the best of my power, according to law”. (Accession Declaration – HM Queen Elizabeth II).Further relevant notes;- - “The Roman Catholic Church . . . must demand the right of freedom FOR HERSELF ALONE” - Civilta Cattolica, April, 1948; official Jesuit organ, Vatican city.- “The pope is the supreme judge, even of CIVIL LAWS, and is incapable of being under any true obligation to them” - ibid.- “It is not lawful to demand, to defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of THOUGHT, or SPEECH, or WRITING, or RELIGION, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man” - Pope Leo XIII in Libertas, 1903.- “Kings and Princes (including Governor-Generals, Prime Ministers et al - Ed.) are not only NOT exempt from the jurisdiction of the Church, but are SUBORDINATE to the Church in litigated questions of jurisdiction” - Pope IX, 1864, Syllabus of Errors. - “In legal conflict between Powers (Civil and Ecclesiastical) the ECCLESIASTICAL LAW PREVAILS”: - ibid.- “Individual liberty in reality is only DEADLY ANARCHY “ - Pope Pius XII, April 6th, 1951.Regarding the above Syllabus of Errors, the Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 14 states - “All Catholics (including our Governor General. . Ed.) therefore, are BOUND TO ACCEPT the Syllabus of Errors”.