Well, it's not getting too much attention, so I figured I'd post the Holy Father's message to the United Nations. It was pretty amazing and I just pray that others around the globe listened.Building on what Archbishop Migliore continues to present to the UN, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of human rights and noted how unfortunate it is that people of faith have to hide their religious beliefs in order to make a public statement as a citizen.
"Through the United Nations, States have established universal objectives which, even if they do not coincide with the total common good of the human family, undoubtedly represent a fundamental part of that good. The founding principles of the Organisation - the desire for peace, the quest for justice, respect for the dignity of the person, humanitarian co-operation and assistance - express the just aspirations of the human spirit, and constitute the ideals which should underpin international relations. ... The United Nations embodies the aspiration for a 'greater degree of international ordering', inspired and governed by the principle of subsidiarity, and therefore capable of responding to the demands of the human family through binding international rules and through structures capable of harmonising the day-to-day unfolding of the lives of peoples. This is all the more necessary at a time when we experience the obvious paradox of a multilateral consensus that continues to be 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...CONTINUE ADDRESS.
