WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week, the United States Senate and House of Representatives are considering resolutions condemning the ongoing attack on the presence of the Vatican at the United Nations initiated by the anti-Catholic group “Catholics For a Free Choice.” The resolutions threaten that the Vatican’s removal from the world body would “further damage relations between the United States and the United Nations,” reports C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute) today.
The resolutions, introduced by Republican Congressman Christopher Smith in the House and by Republican Senators Rick Santorum and Bob Smith in the Senate, “commend the Holy See for its unique contributions to a thoughtful and robust dialogue in issues of international concern during its 36 years as a Permanent Observer at the United Nations.”
The resolutions “strongly object to any effort to expel the Holy See from the United Nations as a state participant by removing its status as a nonmember state Permanent Observer,” and says “that any degradation of the status accorded to the Holy See would seriously damage the credibility of the United Nations by demonstrating that its rules of participation are manipulable for ideological reasons rather than being rooted in neutral principles and objective facts of sovereignty.”
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(with files from C-FAM)