THE United Nations did not worship God, but instead worshipped the Earth itself in the form of the earth god Gaia, Ms Theresa Bell told the HLI conference in Killiney at the weekend.
"They worship Gaia at the extense of human life", she said. Their ideology is population control, on the basis of false science. Otherwise, Gain will die. Yet this is used to break down countries - laws and traditions. When the UN was founded, Catholics had faith and they knew their faith. Now we have contraception and abortion."
She said that the real agenda of the UN was more insidious than the stated one of promoting peace and friendship between nations.
According to a leaflet distributed at the conference, the document Agenda 21, which came out of the UN's Earth summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, "would result in massive redistributions of wealth, greatly curtail human economic activities, drastically reduce human population and transform much of the world into an enormous wildlife preserve where people would be allowed to live only in designated pockets".
Father Richard Welch warned delegates of the growth of a "New Age movement" within the church. This could be seen in the growth of pantheism, the self awareness movement, "channelling" and the use of native prayers in countries such as the US and New Zealand.
"It comes down to the revival of witchcraft and paganism", he said. "It is taking place with growing frequency, especially among religious orders who staff schools."
Father Welch, who is a canon lawyer, told The Irish Times he had just presented a case to the Vatican on behalf of a nun who alleged that members of her order were involved in witchcraft. "This must be one of the first cases presented to the Vatican seeking an investigation (of witchcraft), oh, for centuries," he said. "If people want to be witches, that's their right, but not within the Catholic Church."
Mrs Nora Bennis told delegates that the Government and the politicians had sold out "our Christian heritage".
Mr Patrick O'Brien, a retired teacher from Portlaoise, was a delegate to the conference. Asked how he had found out about the conference, since it was not widely advertised, he said: "I send a few pounds to Father Marx and get the newsletter".
Michael Ahern, from Dublin, attended the conference with his 90 year old mother, Maureen, who showed The Irish Times her Fine Gael membership card. She said: "There was a lot spoken here that should be of interest to politicians."
They, too, had heard of the conference from the HLI newsletter, and Mr Ahern said there had been a lot of publicity for it in the Irish Family paper.