[HarleyD]

Benedict said "there is an urgent need of a true world political authority" whose task would be "to manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis;

Wealth springs from individuals-not from governments. You would have thought the Vatican learned this lesson with charging people for indulgences.

[Dutchboy88]

LOL. Perhaps Benedict sees a large “commission based indulgence” available if he steers all the sheeple to the “central authority”.

What is eerily similar here is that his organization has always been reliant upon their constituents accepting the concept of a “world religious authority”. Now...hmmmmmm.