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As a Roman Catholic I have always understood the Pope to be infallible in matters of faith and morals as contained in Divine Revelation. All other matters are his desires and ways to achieve them. God handed Moses the Ten Commandments on Mt Sinai as guidelines for human activities. There are more ways than one to skin a cat, and this is his feeling on how we an achieve these recommendations. My personal feelin is that we were given our Savior in the person of Jesus Christ to more or less fine tune the Ten Commandments. There is no question that as moral human beings we would like an end to wars, human suffering and totalitarian governments. As humans, we all live in nation states with nationalistic feelings which I am very comfortable. I believe we live in the Greatest Nation that God has allowed on this planet. The question is how can we bestow the freedoms that we have enjoyed in the UNited States to others. A one world government would not be the answer as there are too many differences between the nation states. The Holy Father threw out the idea of a global government as a way to achieve which I feel is impossible. Again the Holy Father is very concerned about mankind with all of its frailaties but his feelings on how to achieve this are one mans idea and not infallible. He is an idealist has expressed his opinion which we are free to accept or not accept. His famous paragraph reflects the views of an idealist. JM