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>>> that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth. <<<

FAMILY of nations? I seem to remember that in the body of _Caritas in Veritate_ we are told that a “family” of nations is not enough — we should have a global BROTHERHOOD of nations. What would a global family/brotherhood of nations entail?

Would such a “brotherhood” be akin to Virgil’s “imperium sine fine” (i.e., “empire without end”)?

>>> ...to bring about INTEGRAL and timely disarmament... <<<

>>> 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.” <<<

>>> 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.” <<<

Integral...integral...INTEGRAL!

Can someone please the significance of this term in the context of _Caritas in Veritate_. Does it have anything to do with the Catholic “integralist movement” (Pius X and all that)?

I don't know that it matters . . .

Uhhhh . . . spitting . . . against the wind

is still a rather dubious exercise.

AS I've more or less somewhat noted on similar threads . . .

EITHER the leader of 1+ billion souls

1. Is deluded enough to think that his magicsterically sanitized lofty enclyclicals will sway satan to the Pope's constructions on reality;

2. is deluded enough to think that satan and his thoroughly demonized globalist goons become saints with age;

3. that tyrannical authoritarian ruthless genocidal globalism determined to forcefully reduce the world's population to 200 million is a warm fuzzy silly rabbit in wolf's clothing;

4. that his magical magicsterical enclyclicals will force resisted exorcisms on all the globalists world wide--who will then flock to their nearest RC baptismal fonts for deep immersion . . . oh well . . . as deep as possible splatters;

5. that the ruthless demonized globalists--who--out of some remaining redemptive microscopic corner of their heart are all ready to call on their ET space buddies to transport all faithful and most not so faithful RC's to a cozy garden-of-Eden type planet near Alpha Centauri just before the Mark of the Beast is fully implemented;

6. that satan himself will be caught reading the enclyclical by Mary and the force of her finger shaking, the magic of her white hanky and the sternness of her tongue wagging will reform even satan into a true wonderously righteous angelic force who will then instantly transform the UN and all the global tyrants into Mother and Father Theresa's rushing about spreading magical TRUTH IN LOVE posies all over the planet.

7. he knows full well the die is cast and everything will get horrifically worse until after Armageddon but he didn't have anything better to do than propagate a smoke-screen pile of ecclesiastical and bureaucratic political pseudo-theological gobbledy-gook just to watch all the horrifically ignorant blather that would result.

8. he was tasked with the globalist tyrants with pumping out a pile of stinking nonsense that sort of advocated world government clearly enough while obsfucating the whole issue enough to muddy millions of minds around the world into yet more of a mindless stupor all ripe for mass mind control and hypnosis.

9. Alzheimer's has begun to plague the upper reaches of the Vatican worse than anyone had imagined.