"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."
What? We need an even more centralized authority with even stronger teeth? I'm all for a reform of the UN, but I'm afraid the encyclical calls for a reform that would give UN more (not less) centralized power. And what does it mean to have a family of nations with real teeth?
"...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. 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. ..."
I'm afraid His Holiness Benedict the XVIth has just lost one Latvian fan.
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