You wrote:
“Unfortunately your Pope is either very weak on understanding the nature of power concentrated in a few, or disingenuous. How long do you think a world governing power will allow people to pick and choose how the money taken from them is spent? My guess is about 2 seconds.”
Jesus urged men to be perfect like His Father. Is that weak or disingenuous?
I doubt your Pope is being disingenuous. It's more likely he's just revealing his lack of understanding.
I realize it's very hard for RC's to criticize anything your Pope says or does and that anyone who does you perceive to be attacking your church and your faith. However, this socialist drivel is naive and wrong and I suspect the conservative RC's know it. The naivete is the idea that a large centralized bureaucracy with the power to enforce it's decisions will let authority rest at the lowest levels. I have yet to see this happen on a national level let alone a global level. The socialist drivel that by redistributing wealth everyone will be better off has been shown throughout history to be a bitter failure. The USSR could never get their wheat to market and suffered severe famines as a result, yet the little plots of land that Russians were allowed to grow their own vegetables on flourished.
If he wants to see the poor nations improve he should embrace free markets not blame them for the consequences of govt incompetence and manipulation of them.