Vatican about UN:
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. (67)
-- highlight from the paragraph-by-paragraph summary of the 2009 papal encyclical Caritas in Veritate