The Holy See notes that such fears are completely lacking in historical precendent to justify them, considering the Holy See has never before taken up any General Secretariat position in any iteration of the United Nations. (incidentally we correct the Republic, the UN is neither secular or religious, rather it is an international institution and is thus not defined by any one ideology, religion or philosophical view) Furthermore these accusations are made without any substance, not a shred, to support these offensive allegations as to the intent of the Holy See and simply constitute fearmongering and incitement against the Holy See.
This in itself is unfortunate considering the progress in peaceful relations between differing positions that has been made recently with the Holy See at the forefront of such trends, we note for example that an atheist, communist state has given its endorsement to the Holy See for the General Secretariat. Such support from a state who's position is inimically opposed by the Holy See for obvious reasons clearly shows universal wide-ranging support for a papal general secretariat, based on the Holy Sees historical role as a defender against tyranny, promotor of moral values, and upright member of the international community. It also shows that even the most irreligious of states do not fear some papal imposition of universal theocracy as the Republic seems to be accusing the Papal States of intending.
Considering this, we can only presume that the Solitude Republic is making its offensive accusations against us on the basis that they would see their domestic political structure, which the Holy See by no means opposes, imposed on all the nations of the world. This is an unfortunate mentality and we are dissapointed that a tendency has already reared its head to sow discord between nations by those unscrupulous ideologues who see tolerance of other nations cultures and traditions as inimical to their particular agendas.
