[B-Chan]

He’s infallible on issues of faith and morals. Otherwise, no.

That being said, those with more than three working brain cells can clearly read in the pope’s words a call for global morality, not global government. The key is the word “subsidiarity”. The pope is saying that only a global order founded upon the natural law ( = Judeo-Christian morality ) and as a confederation of sovereign local authorities ( = subsidiarity ) can be legitimate. This implies that any international order founded upon “enlightenment”, humanistic principles, and/or one constituting a single, global sovereignity, cannot be legitimate.

[1000 silverlings]

looks like he and the RC Church is sending in a resume. Humanity has had them “in charge” before, didn’t work out for a lot of us

[Quix]

Baloney.

It’s starkly clear in that paragraph that he is calling for a Global Government.

All the rest is window dressing and white-wash.

[guitarplayer1953]

There will be only one successfully OWG and that will be when Christ comes to reign on earth.

[beckett]

See my posts here, here, here, here, and especially here on the issue of subsidiarity.

To contend that "subsidiarity" softens the Pope's stance on world government is a sign of extreme naivete unbecoming anyone who calls himself a conservative. It suggests severe unfamiliarty with the uses and functions of power.