[ELS]

Everything else I wrote still applies, including my ultimate point, i.e., the Pope favors an armed world government.

Then you have chosen to pull a quote out of context and run with it. In case you missed the quote that I highlighted earlier, here it is:

In order not to produce a dangerous universal power of a tyrannical nature, the governance of globalization must be marked by subsidiarity, articulated into several layers and involving different levels that can work together. Globalization certainly requires authority, insofar as it poses the problem of a global common good that needs to be pursued. This authority, however, must be organized in a subsidiary and stratified way[138], if it is not to infringe upon freedom and if it is to yield effective results in practice.

Benedict XVI understands human nature and its temptations. He doesn't think or write in short soundbites. One can't just grab one sentence or paragraph from a long document and think that that short excerpt summarizes what he is saying in the document. Look at what happened when the lamestream media took one quote out of context from a lecture he gave in Germany at Regensberg University. They deliberately highlighted that quote because they knew that out of context it would be very controversial. However, it was merely a side point leading up to the main thesis of his lecture and wasn't something he said, either.

He has clarified what he means about a global authority. It is not what all of the chicken littles on FR are claiming he means. He includes multiple references to the Catholic concept of subsidiarity. One cannot comment effectively if they do not know what he is talking about.

So, your idea that he advocates an armed one world government is completely unfounded. He frequently denounces violence as a solution to social problems.

[beckett]

The Pope has proposed a global authority backed up the "authority to ensure compliance," which can only mean authority from the barrel of a gun, just as all law is ultimately enforced, if it comes to it, by physical coercion.

You're living in a dream world if you think subsidiarity negates hierarchy. That's kind of like saying a mail room supervisor can tell the CEO to take a hike if he doesn't like what the CEO wants him to do. Or perhaps, better yet, an altar boy can tell the Pope he's banishing the Sacraments from Roman Catholicism whether the Pope likes it or not.

POWER assigns to the OFFICE, and the higher the office's place in the hierarchy, the more power it accrues. Catholic clergy understand hierarchy very well. They just about invented it in its modern form. The Pope wants to superimpose a hierarchy above all other hierarchies, and all his and your silly disclaimers about subsidiarity are mere window dressing, catnip for fools who don't understand the uses and functions of power.