Nuggets from Occult Invasion

Pope John Paul II is using his immense power and prestige to push bankers into forgiving Third World debt as a unique tribute to the year 2000, which—to whatever extent that may happen—would polish the Vatican’s image. Pat Robertson has been promoting the same idea. In what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called “a historic event,” world financial leaders, including IMF managing director Michel Camdessus (a French Catholic) and World Bank president James Wolfensohn, met with Vatican officials and Catholic bishops from Third World countries in a closed-door session at the Vatican during June 9 and 10, 1997. An interfaith coalition backing the Pope argues that—

“…the arrival of a new millennium provides a perfect occasion—and rationale—for a one-time forgiveness of debts owed by the world’s most impoverished countries.”