VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict wasted his New Year address to call on people to change their lifestyles to save the planet, saying environmental responsibility was essential for global peace. [One would have thought that moral responsibility is essential to peace, global or local.]

Recalling that world leaders had gathered in Copenhagen last month for the U.N. climate conference [irrelevant unless government can control the climate!], the pope said action at a personal and community level was just as important [as what?] to safeguard the environment. [Self control? Must we quit smoking tobacco, opium, and pot?]

"Nevertheless, in this moment, I would like to underline the importance of the choices of individuals, families and local administrations in preserving the environment," the Pope told the thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square.

"An objective shared by all, an indispensable condition for peace, is that of overseeing [clear implication of force and control] the earth's natural resources with justice and wisdom." [attributes common to governments and politicians!]

The pope also said "ecological responsibility" should be taught as part of the education syllabus. [along with such other essentials as sex training and evolution.]

The pope and his predecessor John Paul have put the Vatican firmly on an environmentalist footing. Last month, in a message sent to heads of state and international organizations, the pope called on rich nations to acknowledge responsibility for the environmental crisis [global warming] and shed consumerism.

Reuters July 7, 2009

Pope Benedict on Tuesday called for a “world political authority” to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.

The pope’s call for a re-think of the way the world economy is run came in a new encyclical which touched on a number of social issues but whose main connecting thread was how the current crisis has affected both rich and poor nations.

Called “Charity in Truth,” parts of the encyclical appeared bound to upset conservatives because of its underlying rejection of unbridled capitalism and unregulated market forces, which he said had led to “thoroughly destructive” abuse of the system.

Pope Benedict XVI spoke to the U.N. General Assembly, warning nations against undermining the authority of the United Nations by acting unilaterally. [As in plundering the Palestinians? Or was that bilateral action?] The Pope also found time to bless the U.N. flag. [Some one’s gotta do it! Who better than a non-member?]

Reuters reports,

"Countries that act unilaterally on the world stage undermine the authority of the United Nations and weaken the broad consensus needed to confront global problems.”  The international community must be "capable of responding to the demands of the human family through binding international rules," said the 81-year-old pope, who spoke after meeting privately with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

He said the notion of multilateral consensus was "in crisis because it is still subordinated to the decisions of a few, whereas the world’s problems call for interventions in the form of collective action by the international community."

We see here in verbal action the expert on humanity and its inherent rights, backing up the tyranny of super-government according to the sainted New World Order, which supplants local governments supposedly sensitive to needs of their own constituents with deadly conformism which reduces all men to a common herd of ineffective proletarians (then reduces even that aspect to race suicide), and pontificating on how to run the world [secular Ecumenism], while he continues without interruption the destruction of the mother of our civilization, the Catholic Church.

It was my privilege to know an extraordinary violinist, who said: “If you hear a musician faulting the performance of another musician, you may take it as evidence that he himself is not practicing.” When will Benedict say something-anything!-to promote Catholicism? In his decades in charge of the new Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, what rampant heresy or crime of sodomy or pederasty has he tried to remedy?