Pope Benedict called on Tuesday for a "world political authority" to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat...
And here from Vatican.Va is the encyclical in total, with one of the most offensive paragraphs being #67 (remember it's not the platitudes that destroy; it's the slimy socialism slipped in under the guise of compassion.)
67. 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[146] 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.U>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. Without this, despite the great progress accomplished in various sectors, international law would risk being conditioned by the balance of power among the strongest nations. The integral development of peoples and international cooperation require the establishment of a greater degree of international ordering, marked by subsidiarity, for the management of globalization[149]. They also require the construction of a social order that at last conforms to the moral order, to the interconnection between moral and social spheres, and to the link between politics and the economic and civil spheres, as envisaged by the Charter of the United Nations...
Barely 20 years after Ronald Reagan left office, who would have even dreamed we'd have political leaders calling for a resurgence of the U.N. and a global authority "with teeth" and the power of enforcement who would control U.S. defense, finances, immigration, social welfare, politics, food distribution, the environment and whatever else it pleases to control.
Clearly, when a religion denies the sovereignty of the Triune God alone, it's that much easier for it to deny the sovereignty of nations, the United States in particular.
Alarming and utterly pathetic.
He is not denying the sovereignty of the Triune God alone. In Caritas in Veritate, he says. “Man is not a lost atom in a random universe. He is God’s creature, whom God chose to endow with an immortal soul and whom he has always loved. If man were merely the fruit of either chance or necessity, or if he had to lower his aspirations to the limited horizon of the world in which he lives, if all reality were merely history and culture, and man did not possess a nature destined to transcend itself in a supernational life, then one could speak of growth, or evolution, but not development...without the guidance of charity in truth, this global force COULD CAUSE UNPRECEDENTED DAMAGE AND CREATE NEW DIVISIONS WITHIN THE HUMAN FAMILY...HUMANITY RUNS NEW RISKS OF ENSLAVEMENT MANIPULATION.
That is a clear warning against the wrong kind of global warning!
Read the entire Encylical and try and comprehend it.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
THANKS MUCH.