[reed_inthe_wind]

"More than ever we need a new international order ...
An order which is capable of finding adequate solutions to today's problems"

Knee jerk reactions to the Vatican from FReepers are once again pathetically wrong. By saying that we need something new now more than ever, our Holy Father is telling the world that the current UN is screwed up and inadequate. That's the same thing our President said to the world when he led us in the preemptive invasion of Iraq.

[Bluntpoint]

Was the Pope misquoted here also?

"The United Nations is called upon, more than ever, to be the central place for decisions on the reconstruction of countries," he told the assembled ambassadors.

"That is an essential condition needed to restore trust in the heart of a country."

[sinkspur]

By saying that we need something new now more than ever, our Holy Father is telling the world that the current UN is screwed up and inadequate. That's the same thing our President said to the world when he led us in the preemptive invasion of Iraq.

Well, I suppose that's one way of interpreting it.

The most obvious way of interpreting what the Pope said is that it is another slap at US unilateralism, which is willing to act when international bodies won't. The Pope knows that, had the US taken his advice, Hussein would still be in power, stuffing his people into shredders.

The Pope wants something to counter the United States and Britain. Surely you see that.