[mike182d]

I think a lot of people are missing this line:

"The Church does not have technical solutions to offer[10] and does not claim “to interfere in any way in the politics of States.”[11]"

The Holy Father is not saying the economy should be under the rule of some one-world government. He's saying if we continue with the current, globalized economic model, there will need to be such a system out of necessity to prevent oppression or further dehumanization. He poses no objections to scrapping a globalized economy entirely if there's another system the world is willing to adopt, nor is the Holy Father in a position to dictate which economic model is best.

Sometimes it helps to read more than a sentence of a 100-page document. There's a lot of great stuff in there.

[Running On Empty]

“He’s saying if we continue with the current, globalized economic model, there will need to be such a system out of necessity to prevent oppression or further dehumanization”.

I commend you for expressing so well in one sentence the whole premise of what the Pope is addressing.

As a dear friend of mine told me today: “All human forms of government will eventually pass away and we, the faithful, will live in a monarchial model with the King”.

Meanwhile........

[Prokopton]

The Holy Father is not saying the economy should be under the rule of some one-world government. He's saying if we continue with the current, globalized economic model, there will need to be such a system out of necessity to prevent oppression or further dehumanization.

Now this is pure spin. The Holy Father said "there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago".

I only hope that the misguided secular views of this Pope do not wreak as much havoc on the Catholic Church as the misguided secular views of John XXIII did.