[Quix]

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;

or

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

or

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;

or

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;

or

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;

or

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.

or

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.

or

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.

or

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

[the invisib1e hand]

or, he's infallible with regard to teaching faith and morals, and is very learned and wise in all other matters.

But, no, I'm sure the average FReeper knows more than he does.

[IbJensen]

Speaking on faith and morals is one thing; world governance is quite another.

[betty boop]

...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....

Dear brother in Christ, this is precisely what Pope Benedict is warning us about in Caritas in Veritate. He sees what's going on at the higher echelons of so-called "world government" and transnational institutions. He has "b*tch-slapped" the U.N. big time.