I’m not sure what this is leading, but it’s noteworthy:
“Pope Calls for a New World Order”
Pope John Paul II launched one of the most important diplomatic initiatives of his long papacy yesterday when he called for a new international order to replace the one that emerged from the second world war.
Though he did not offer a detailed plan, his words appeared to show he wanted the UN replaced in light of its failure to block the use of force by America in Iraq.
The Pope called last month for the reform of world institutions and deplored any failure to respect international law. But in a sermon during a mass at St Peter’s in Rome yesterday, he went much further, referring to the UN as if it were already a part of the past.
“More than ever, we need a new international order that draws on the experience and results achieved in these years by the United Nations,” he declared during a service to mark the Roman Catholic Church’s World Day of Peace, celebrated on January 1.
The Pope, means well, but this only goes to show what a doddering, senile old fool he’s become. WTF was the U.N. supposed to do to stop the invasion of Iraq, given that George aWol Bush and his puppetmeisters had decided to do invade Iraq long before 9/11 gave them a specious excuse to do it.