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Is Benedict in Favor of World Government?

Douglas A. Sylva

As observers continue to decipher the meaning of Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate , all appear to agree that the passage of note, the passage that may...

The Pope’s Plan for the U.N.

Douglas A. Sylva

Pope Benedict’s address to the U.N. General Assembly possessed no obvious and immediate Regensburg passage, no startling phrase to shake observers from comfortable assumptions and to foster debate about...

The Pope and the United Nations

Douglas A. Sylva

The pope has John Allen worried. In a column published in the New York Times , Allen, senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter , frets that Pope Benedict...