Is Benedict in Favor of World Government?

As observers continue to decipher the meaning of Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, all appear to agree that the passage of note, the passage that may prove historic in its implications, is the one that is already becoming known as the “world political authority” paragraph:

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 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. . . .

Could Benedict be in favor of world government, as many now believe? Taken in the context of papal writings since the dawn of the UN, as well as Benedict’s own opinions, recorded both before and after his election as pope, the passage gains another meaning. It is in reality a profound challenge to the UN, and the other international organizations, to make themselves worthy of authority, of the authority that they already possess, and worthy of the expansion of authority that appears to be necessary in light of the accelerated pace of globalization.

It is true that Benedict believes that a transnational organization must be empowered to address transnational problems. But so has every pope since John XXIII, who wrote in 1963 that “Today the universal common good presents us with problems which are worldwide in their dimensions; problems, therefore, which cannot be solved except by a public authority with power, organization, and means coextensive with these problems, and with a worldwide sphere of activity. Consequently the moral order itself demands the establishment of some such form of public authority.”

But such an authority has been established, and we have lived with it since 1948, and in many ways it has disappointed. So Benedict turns John XXIII’s formulation on its head: Morality no longer simply demands a global social order; now Benedict underscores that this existing social order must operate in accord with morality. He ends his own passage on world authority by stating that “The integral development of peoples and international cooperation require the establishment of a greater international ordering, marked by subsidiarity, for the management of globalization. They also require the construction of a social order that at last conforms to the moral order. . . .” Note the phrase “at last.”

What went wrong? According to Benedict, a world authority worthy of this authority would need “to make a commitment to securing authentic integral human development inspired by the values of charity in truth.” The obvious implication is that the current UN has not made this commitment.

To understand how the UN has failed, we must delve into the rest of the encyclical. According to Benedict, the goal of all international institutions must be “authentic integral human development.” This human development must be inspired by truth, in this case, the truth about humanity. Pursuit of this truth reveals that each human being possesses absolute worth; therefore, authentic human development is predicated on a radical defense of life.

This link is made repeatedly in Caritas in Veritate. “Openness to life is at the center of true development. . . . The acceptance of life strengthens moral fiber and makes people capable of mutual help. . . . They can promote virtuous action within the perspective of production that is morally sound and marked by solidarity, respecting the fundamental right to life of every people and individual.”

To some, it must seem startling how often Benedict comes back to life in an encyclical ostensibly dedicated to economics and globalization. But this must be understood as Benedict’s effort to humanize globalization. It can be seen as the global application of John Paul II’s own encyclical on life, Evengelium Vitae.

Without this understanding of the primacy of life, international development is bound to fail: “Who could measure the negative effects of this kind of mentality for development? How can we be surprised by the indifference shown towards situations of human degradation, when such indifference extends even to our attitude towards what is and is not human?”

Throughout the encyclical, Benedict is unsparing in the ways in which the current international order contributes to this failure; no major front in the war over life is left unmentioned, from population control, to bioethics, to euthanasia.

But none of this should come as a surprise. Since at least as far back as the UN’s major conferences of the 1990s—Cairo and Beijing—Benedict has known that the UN has adopted a model of development conformed to the culture of death. He no doubt assisted John Paul II in his successful efforts to stop these conferences from establishing an international right to abortion-on-demand. At the time, Benedict said, “Today there is no longer a ‘philosophy of love’ but only a ‘philosophy of selfishness.’ It is precisely here that people are deceived. In fact, at the moment they are advised not to love, they are advised, in the final analysis, not to be human. For this reason, at this stage of the development of the new image of the new world, Christians . . . have a duty to protest.”

Now, in his teaching role as pope, Benedict is not simply protesting but offering the Christian alternative, the full exposition of authentic human development. Whether or not the UN can meet the philosophical challenges necessary to promote this true development remains uncertain. But it should not be assumed that Benedict is sanguine; after all, he begins his purported embrace of world government with a call for UN “reform,” not expansion.

...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...

Haven't wanted to do this but it seems to be required.

` ENCYCLICAL	Quix’s commentary
...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;	WHO is going to work all this economic magic? . WHO will shove the satanic oligarchy long ruling and gaining power daily—WHO will shove them aside PRIOR to ARMAGEDDON [Please avoid telling me it will be millions of the new “Magnificent Militant Marchers of Mary’s White Hanky Brigade”]? . WHO will produce wealth out of a hat that the satanic oligarchy has been stealing and greedily hording on the one hand and rapidly destroying that of the masses on the other? . WHO will decide which useless eaters to exterminate to SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND more easily? Will it be a sub-committee of the Vatican magicsterical? . If the Vatican does not want the current ruling satanic oligarchy doing the ‘honors,’ then how does the Vatican plan to shuffle satan’s legions aside? Perhaps by magically empowering a few Swiss guards in funny hats and shoes that make a nice magical muffled “POOF” sound when clicked together?
to bring about integral and timely disarmament,	Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes. . Nothing warms a tyrant’s heart more than MONSTER MIGHT MUNITIONS. . Oh, right . . . a dozen Vatican magical Swiss guards on the one side and hoards of fallen angels with UFO technologies and masses of earthly armies and advanced weapons not yet revealed on the other side. Anyone taking bets? . Oh, wait. There’s rumor that Mary’s Magnificent Militant Marchers are hard at work on a new weapon. First they starch the white hankies very heavily and roll them into darts. Then they dip the tips in a secret mixture that includes ground petrified gum from under the desks of a 4th century Parochial school with ink black from the Inquisition. The hope is that it will fell Orcs at a 100 paces, demons & fallen angels/ET’s at 50 and Brezenskie’s calvary at 40. . Really, just what is the VATICAN PROPOSING here? Functionally, nothing. The might and power of the earthly realm is all cornered by satan’s crew already and the Pope MUST know that. He must also know there’s NO altering that state of affairs this side of literal Armageddon. Do any of the honest Roman Catholics hereon REALLY disagree with my assessment on that score? If so, please tell me and what evidence you have supporting such a different assumption so at odds with train loads of evidence.
food security	Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhht! . And which Vatican food warehouse that’s larger on the inside than it is on the outside is the good Pope going to pull the globally needed food out of? . And how is he going to do this successfully under the noses of the satanic oligarchy deliberately starving (as well as engineered plague infecting & mass murdering) millions of “useless eaters” into oblivion? . Oh, Right. The Magical Swiss Guards to the rescue again.
and peace;	Ahhhhh . . . how touching . . . in the midst of fallen angel/ET and earthly and demonic armies bringing worse death and destruction on the earth than the earth has ever known or ever will know . . . the Pope will stand on top of St Peter’s rub his magical ring and blow his magical whistle and wave his magical hand and drop a borrowed magical white hanky and all hostilities will cease and satan will return to hell to suck his thumb in defeat. . Oh, I know what the good Pope means here. He means that after the satanic global oligarchy has reduced the world’s population to 200 million with no Roman Catholics, no authentic Christians of any flavor left at all . . . with all remaining Mark of the Beast implanted blokes falling prostrate at the statues of satan incarnate—THEN there will be global peace and the good Pope will be pleased. . Touching thought, that.
to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration:	Ahhh . . . how grand. . Both of those are handily managed by reducing the population to 200 million by force, mass deaths of many clever varieties. . Oh, the good Pope has petitioned satan for a special satanic dispensation to exclude Roman Catholics from the mass exterminations. He was somehow able to be quite persuasive using the magical code words “subsidiarity” and “TRUTH IN LOVE.” Satan almost bowed low at every mention of them. The good Pope got the special Satanic Dispensation in writing from satan himself. Of course he did hear robust laughter as he closed the door and left the inner sanctum of the Dark Lord. When he went to review the agreement the next morning in his private chambers, he found to his horror it had disintegrated into fly specks.
for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority,	We understand that the good Pope pressured satan extensively to allow the Vatican to be that world political and moral authority. However, the immediate laughter was so intense that the Pope had to pick himself up off the floor from where the raucous noise had flung him. . He was made to instantly understand that the satanic oligarchy had THAT political authority issue well in hand and growing mightily in it’s reach by the hour.

I'm running out of time and energy to do the rest of that section. It just seems absurd to me that it's not self-evident and glarignly so . . . that there's ABSOLUTELY NO FUNCTIONAL CONGRUENCE with the encyclical and current global government realities. None . . . EXCEPT for . . .

Those troubling sentences where the encyclical seems to be cheering the global government on . . . in concert with it's goals and aims.

Folks can SAY, rather stridently, even, that the good Pope doesn't mean that. Fine and good. SHOW ME. The only logical conclusions I can draw are from his own words. If he didn't MEAN THOSE WORDS, HE SHOULD HAVE USED DIFFERENT ONES.

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