[ConservativeMind]

The Pope's own words from the Encyclical Letter:

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. One also senses the urgent need to find innovative ways of implementing the principle of the responsibility to protect[146] and of giving poorer nations an effective voice in shared decision-making. This seems necessary in order to arrive at a political, juridical and economic order which can increase and give direction to international cooperation for the development of all peoples in solidarity. 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. Such an authority would need to be regulated by law, to observe consistently the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity, to seek to establish the common good[147], and to make a commitment to securing authentic integral human development inspired by the values of charity in truth. 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. Without this, despite the great progress accomplished in various sectors, international law would risk being conditioned by the balance of power among the strongest nations. The integral development of peoples and international cooperation require the establishment of a greater degree of international ordering, marked by subsidiarity, for the management of globalization[149]. They also require the construction of a social order that at last conforms to the moral order, to the interconnection between moral and social spheres, and to the link between politics and the economic and civil spheres, as envisaged by the Charter of the United Nations.

The Vatican's Link For This Letter

[ConservativeMind]

Notice how there are no interpretations by Reuters in that. It is taken, in whole and without editing, straight from the Pope himself, with the quote straight from the Vatican.

For those Catholics who insist this is plausible through “subsidiary,” my question to you is how do you do a “New, New World Order” with subsidiary?” How do you make something like the UN have absolute enforcement power in these areas of importance while having the power and enforcement limited to the smallest, local enforcer? Who or what could that enforcer even be, the country itself?

If so, then this whole thing is hogwash and merely words meant to sound intelligent.

[Brett66]

I’m trying to give the benfit of a doubt about what he said, as i know the media likes to mis-quote anyone with religious authority.

The only way I could positively spin it would be that he was referring to Jesus Christ as the “true world political authority”.

That seems to be a stretch though....

[rollo tomasi]

“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.”

Right there says it all. Everything else is just fluff and wishful thinking. Also what authority will check the power and make sure the “universal” authority is abiding by the law? A bunch of nation States with different agendas? Why the hell (I know the devil wants one) do Christians need a “one world entity” anyway? Constitution that protect us from government + God fearing individuals + superior firepower = peace.

Good grief, convoluted “intellectualism” running wild around the Vatican.

[Antoninus]

So, you would have a problem with a political authority that was universally recognized? Isn’t that a good thing?