I respectfully disagree.
Maybe he was referring to the Kingdom of God, a New International Order that all Catholics are looking forward to.
It's known as The United States, and its influence is now being felt world-wide, even in places where it was presumed that influence could _never_ reach into.
The resulting peace will be the "Pax Americana".
Don't blame the Pope for some of his opinions, he's an aged and physically troubled man, years past his top powers. In the hindsight of history, Pope John Paul II will be recognized as one of the top five protectors of freedom of the 20th Century.
Cheers!
- John
"More than ever we need a new international order which draws on the experience and results of the United Nations"Okay, let's contrast the opening of the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution with the preamble of the UN's "Charter":
WHICH documents instill confidence and inspire one to high goals and which one seems to have been drafted by a spineless, wishy-washy and godless commitee?
The Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ...
www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/declaration_transcript.html
THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
We the People of the United States, in Order to
- form a more perfect Union,
- establish Justice,
- insure domestic Tranquility,
- provide for the common defence,
- promote the general Welfare, and
- secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html
Charter of the United Nations
PREAMBLE
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
- to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
- to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
- to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
- to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
AND FOR THESE ENDS
HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS
- to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and
- to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
- to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and
- to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,
Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.
"An order which is capable of finding adequate solutions to today's problems, based on the dignity of human beings, on integrating all society, on solidarity between rich and poor countries, on the sharing of resources and the extraordinary results of scientific and technological progress," he added.
And just how is the Pope proposing to enforce his idea of a non-sovereign, communistic utopia??
Quite frankly, this man is dangerous.
"An order which is capable of finding adequate solutions to today's problems, based on the dignity of human beings, on integrating all society, on solidarity between rich and poor countries, on the sharing of resources and the extraordinary results of scientific and technological progress," he added.
To remind. It was this pope who justified the bombing of Serbs. Rome's daily La Repubblieg, published on 14 August 1993, a front cover illustration of the pope at the top of a minaret calling: "Isus (Warren) Christopher, save us." The Italian Press condemned Pope John Paul for blessing an American air assault on Serb positions and for asking President Clinton to launch it without delay. On 15 August 1993, Roman Catholic priest, Don Albino Bizzotto, founder of the Beati Construttovi di Pace peace and charity orgnization, has assessed the pope's call for air strikes on Bosnian Serbs as 'disappointing' and 'double-dealing. "We cannot understand those who speak about mercy and military intervention at the same time, he said. Fr. Bizzotto went on to say: The pope's behavior is like a leading big power, who tries to cure their hypocrisies and failures with armed interventions."
The war against the Serbs was unjust and immoral. It received no approval from Congress nor from the UN, but our wag-the-dog President Clinton went ahead with his bombing of innocent Serbian civilians. This war was to appease the Muslim world. It was to show them that we were willing to destroy a Christian people in order to prove it.
"I respectfully disagree."
I interpreted the Popes statement to mean it's time to learn from the mistakes of the UN and dissolve it. Not such a bad idea, is it?
I don't know why you can't see that even with all of our flaws, the American philosophy of governance and its people are the last, best hope on Earth. I say this as a woman who emigrated from Italy in 1958. Wake up, Pontiff, wake up!!!
I do respect your service to the Church, but if you don't mind a little advise from a stupefied at your reasoning Catholic, you need to begin the peace process with a fumigation of your digs, and the digs of all of your cardinals and bishops and repropbates in collar.
And no one is going to take you seriously until you show as much passion and grief for the victims of abuse at the hands of your 'disciples', as you do for despots and tyrants.
And one last thing, please tell cardinal 'i felt sorry for saddam' to take a long walk off a short pier.
Dear Mr. Pope-
They tried that. It was called the UN. It is full of murderers and bandits that use it so those in power in their countries can stay in power and kill and steal and TAX. Don't be an instrument of these criminals. Governments must be contained. You are not a government. Don't act like one. Read some Austrian School Economics or maybe Animal Farm.
You are just enabling the killers and bandits, like journalists they haven turned into their chumps.
You may love and forgive His Excellency Mugabe of Zimbabwe but right now he is probably dining on a $10,000 breakfast while hundreds of thousands of children IN HIS COUNTRY starve to death. Other lovely Africans are hunting and eating each other in the name of negotiation, peace and THEIR GOD.
Happy New Year.
JESUS SAID THE STRONG MUST HELP THE WEAK.
Faithfully Yours.
PS: Don't forget that the TAX CUTS in the US have caused a surge in growth which is creating JOBS, and is allowing the US to feed more rescue more save more and protect more than any country in the history of the world, again. Don't help people like New York Senator Hillary Clinton and her armies of journasocialists put the brakes back on the tax cut driven economy while trying to cobble together some kind of world village. Tax cuts(government braking systems) have worked every time they have ever been tried. Some in congress are still questioning whether we can afford tax cuts.
This is called law, liberty, property rights and capitalism. It's spreading. The European Socialist Countries, Dictators everywhere and the Democratic Party in the US are what's hampering it.