Let Jesus Set You Free! (LJSF) Ministry

By George Whitten, Jerusalem Bureau Chief

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (Worthy News)– Pope Benedict XVI has urged the creation of a “true world political authority” to “guarantee the protection of the environment” and to manage the global economy, Worthy News learned on Monday, June 21.

The pope issued an encyclical on the eve of the G-8 summit entitled, “Charity in truth“.

An encyclical is the highest form of papal writing, and gives the clearest indication to the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics of what the Vatican thinks about specific social and moral issues.

Pope Benedict said, “there is an urgent need of a true world political authority” whose task would be “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.” Read more:

http://www.worthynews.com/8375-pope-calls-for-world-political-authority