The Pope was admitting that a communist-style economic system was not  only a threat to man but the environment. Yet, he now wants the United  Nations to play a central role in policing a new global agreement on the  environment and disarming the nations of the world. As dangerous as this  may sound, this objective is consistent with his endorsement of a “World  Political Authority,” a key recommendation from his Caritas in Veritate  encyclical.    In that controversial document, the Pope explained that a “World  Political Authority” was necessary in order 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…”

These shocking statements in favor of what is clearly a world government  immediately followed the Pope’s recommendation that, in the face of the  “unrelenting growth of global interdependence,” the United Nations must  be reformed so that “the concept of the family of nations can acquire  real teeth.”    So the Pope wants a strengthened United Nations to constitute a “World  Political Authority” that will have the “teeth” to enforce its will on  the nations of the world? Will somebody in the media explain why this is  not global tyranny? This makes the controversy over Interpol look like  peanuts.    Of course, few in the media want to bring up this sensitive subject.

After all, the Pope is a religious leader of 1.2 billion Catholics, with  63 million of them here in the U.S. But it’s precisely because the  Catholic Church is the largest religious body in America that the  statements of its leader deserve media scrutiny.    Before he spoke to the diplomats, on the occasion of the World Day of  Peace, the Pope issued a January 1, 2010 statement based on the theme,  “If You Want to Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation.” Again, sounding like  Al Gore or Barack Obama, the Pope said that “the threats arising from  the neglect―if not downright misuse―of the earth and the natural goods  that God has given us” were as troubling as “wars, international and  regional conflicts, acts of terrorism, and violations of human rights.”