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.
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.
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.
It is necessary
to correct the malfunctions, some of them serious, that cause new
divisions between peoples and within peoples, and also to ensure that the
redistribution of wealth does not come about through the redistribution or
increase of poverty
In order not to produce a dangerous universal power
of a tyrannical nature, the governance of globalization must be marked by
subsidiarity, articulated into several layers and involving different levels
that can work together. Globalization certainly requires authority, insofar as
it poses the problem of a global common good that needs to be pursued. This
authority, however, must be organized in a subsidiary and stratified way,
if it is not to infringe upon freedom and if it is to yield effective results in
practice.
On this front too, there is a pressing moral need for renewed solidarity,
especially in relationships between developing countries and those that are
highly industrialized. The technologically advanced societies can
and must lower their domestic energy consumption, either through an evolution in
manufacturing methods or through greater ecological sensitivity among their
citizens.
Wealth Redistribution
the civil order, for
its self-regulation, also needed intervention from the State for purposes of
redistribution.
The processes of globalization, suitably understood and directed, open up the
unprecedented possibility of large-scale redistribution of wealth on a
world-wide scale; if badly directed, however, they can lead to an increase in
poverty and inequality, and could even trigger a global crisis.
What is also needed, though, is a worldwide redistribution of
energy resources, so that countries lacking those resources can have access to
them.
But it also needs just laws and forms of redistribution governed
by politics, and what is more, it needs works redolent of the spirit of gift.
Religiously Guided
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.
Much in fact depends on the underlying system of morality. On this subject
the Church's social doctrine can make a specific contribution
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, and to make a commitment to
securing authentic integral human development inspired by the values of charity
in truth.
The
exclusion of religion from the public square — and, at the other extreme,
religious fundamentalism — hinders an encounter between persons and their
collaboration for the progress of humanity.
the duty of believers to unite their efforts with those of all men and
women of good will, with the followers of other religions and with
non-believers, so that this world of ours may effectively correspond to the
divine plan: living as a family under the Creator's watchful eye.
 Manage Finance, Disarm People, & Control Food Supply
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. To read the whole letter go to source below
ENCYCLICAL LETTER
CARITAS IN VERITATE
OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
BENEDICT XVI Click here for source |
Pope Demands World Government |
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