[Land of the Irish]

Alas! this organization which formerly afforded such promising expectations, this limpid and impetuous stream, has been harnessed in its course by the modern enemies of the Church, and is now no more than a miserable affluent of the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer.

Compare with this:

This is the finest aspect of the United Nations; it is its most truly human aspect; it is the ideal that mankind dreams of on its pilgrimage through time; it is the world's greatest hope; it is, We presume to say, the reflection of the loving and transcendent design of God for the progress of the human family on earth a reflection in which We see the heavenly message of the Gospel. Here indeed We seem to hear the echo of the voice of Our Predecessors, and particularly of Pope John XXIII, whose message of "Pacem in Terris" received so honourable and significant a response among you. You proclaim here the fundamental rights and duties of man, his dignity, his freedom and above all his religious freedom.

Pope Paul VI's address to the UN 10/04/65

[Gerard.P]

It is truly a frightening thing to realize what direction we as Catholic have been lead by the last few Popes.

If you want to know Catholicism, you have to know what Popes like St. Pius X wrote. You won't learn it from JPII or Paul VI.

I was horrified when I first took enough interest to read encyclicals. I tried JPII and thought, "this is for the birds." And then I discovered how atypical his ideas and writings were.

I was relieved to finally read past Popes encyclicals and writings. They confirmed my faith and they also alerted me to today's problems. The truth is a mixed blessing.

[ultima ratio]

When a Roman Pontiff calls the UN "The world's greatest hope," you know we must turn elsewhere for truth. It's not coming from the Vatican.