Posted on 07/07/2009 10:48:50 PM PDT by FromLori
Some in the media are calling it just a statement about "economic justice." But Pope Benedict XVI's "Charity in Truth" statement, also known as an encyclical, is a radical document that puts the Roman Catholic Church firmly on the side of an emerging world government.
In explicit and direct language, the Pope calls for a "true world political authority" to manage the affairs of the world. At the same time, however, the Pope also warns that such an international order could "produce a dangerous universal power of a tyrannical nature" and must be guarded against somehow.
The New York Times got it right this time, noting the Pope's call for a world political authority amounted to endorsement of a New World Economic Order, a long-time goal of the old Soviet-sponsored international communist movement. Bloomberg.com highlighted the Pope's call for a new world order with "teeth."
The Pope's shocking endorsement of a "World Political Authority," which has prophetic implications for some Christians who fear that a global dictatorship will take power in the "last days" of man's reign on earth, comes shortly after the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis issued a call for global taxes and more powerful global institutions. U.N. General Assembly President, Miguel D'Escoto, a Communist Catholic Priest, gave a speech at the event calling on the nations of the world to revere "Mother Earth" but concluded with words from the Pope blessing the conference participants.
The controversial Papal statement comes just before a meeting of the G-8 nations and a scheduled meeting between the Pope and President Obama at the Vatican on July 10.
Sounding like Obama himself, Pope Benedict says this new international order can be accomplished through "reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
I stand by my stand that if what he wants is potentially bad - why create a problem where none exists?
He is either advocating or kowtowing to the LIB world view that nanny government can do all things for all people. It can’t and it won’t. All you have to do is look at how our elected officials respond to us.
Have you read the entire document?
Pope Benedict XVI is not the liberal that you portray him to be. He forecasted the financial troubles of the world back in 1985 when he was still a Cardinal.
Again — read the entire document.
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Full text in a couple of those links too. Read it.
Who cares about his predictive ability? I said it twice now - If you know that something can go wrong , why advocate it in the first place?
Ronald Reagan had it right:”The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
Now imagine if that were a world wide government.
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