[Petronski]

Nope, that’s not from the encyclical.

I mean, you’ve read it, right? Just refer me to the paragraph in the copy you read where you found Benedict’s call for an antichrist.

[ClearCase_guy]

I haven’t had a chance to read the encyclical. Can you summarize? Or explain what the Holy Father means by “World Political Authority”? It sounds a bit off-putting, but perhaps he means this in an innocuous way. Can you shed light?

[raybbr]

39. Paul VI in Populorum Progressio called for the creation of a model of market economy capable of including within its range all peoples and not just the better off. He called for efforts to build a more human world for all, a world in which “all will be able to give and receive, without one group making progress at the expense of the other”[94]. In this way he was applying on a global scale the insights and aspirations contained in Rerum Novarum, written when, as a result of the Industrial Revolution, the idea was first proposed — somewhat ahead of its time — that the civil order, for its self-regulation, also needed intervention from the State for purposes of redistribution. Not only is this vision threatened today by the way in which markets and societies are opening up, but it is evidently insufficient to satisfy the demands of a fully humane economy.

(40) ...Moreover, the so-called outsourcing of production can weaken the company's sense of responsibility towards the stakeholders — namely the workers, the suppliers, the consumers, the natural environment and broader society — in favour of the shareholders, who are not tied to a specific geographical area and who therefore enjoy extraordinary mobility.

The articulation of political authority at the local, national and international levels is one of the best ways of giving direction to the process of economic globalization. It is also the way to ensure that it does not actually undermine the foundations of democracy.

From here.

Advocating State 'redistribution' is the "anti-Christ" as far as I am concerned.

Sorry, this reads right out of a communist manifesto.

[mom4melody]

Pope Benedict on Tuesday called for a “world political authority” to manage the global economy...

The Scripures, which is higher up the Biblical authority chain then the pope, speaks of a future world government with a single leader, who controls all economies. He is called the Anti-christ.

By asking for this “world political leader” the Pope (who, of all people, should know his scripture) is calling for the very conditions for this person to appear.

[PetroniusMaximus]

67. In the face of the unrelenting growth of global interdependence, there is a strongly felt need, even in the midst of a global recession, for a reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth. ... To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago. ... Furthermore, such an authority would need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights[148]. Obviously it would have to have the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties, and also with the coordinated measures adopted in various international forums.

 

Pope call for Antichrist.