My initial thoughts is that as ususal the media and even some Catholic comentators are misreading the pope. I have not yet arrived at what appears the controversial quote that seems to call for a world wide authority but I will venture a guess that it is not calling for a one world government but something that calls for all governments to work toghether to apply what is in essence Catholic social teaching. I wonder what the chances of that is given that five out of six humans are not Catholic.
What I do know it that the church calls for the application of her social teachings at the local level not at a centralized governmental level as those of whose mindset leans to the left socialist world view. The church also warns of the exeses of the capitalist decentralized world view. The truth is that the extremists on both world views see the human person as a means to an end. One sees humas as uneducated masses in need of elite control and the other sees human as means of material profits. Catholic social teaching calls for a pradigm shift in the thinking of all governments to make the Human Person the focus of policies that are centered on Charity and truth. Charity and Truth that recognize the inherent dignity of the human person and allows humans to live to their maximun potential hopefully to worship God as he has revealed himself to Man.
As mentioned I have not yet read the document fully and as with many church documents it will require mutliple readings to grasp the full import of what it says, but I have a grap of the bady of teaching of the church and knwing that church doctrine does not can cannot change I will wager that the initial, any reporting of the secular medial will exagerate portions to justify their notions and ignore those that oppose them.
Here is the encyclcal for all to read
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