The Pope wants "World Political Authority" & wealth redistribution?

I agree with the Pope on this issue, yes. He's hardly the first Pope to express alarm about the grotesque inequality and injustice of modern capitalist market society, BTW. Pope Leo XIII, back in 1891, first addressed this issue in a famous encyclical called "Rerum Novarum," concerning the gross inequalities & violent social conflicts of that time between capital & labor.

This doesn't mean that Leo XIII was "socialist" in 1891, or that the current Pontiff is "socialist" now. But these guys have been smart and morally sensitive enough to see that gross inequalities between rich and poor are (a) contrary to many of the teachings of Jesus in the Bible (b) destructive to the social stability of capitalist society, and (c) of enormous political concern to many Catholics, both among the poor and the upper classes, and thus a potential source of conflict within the Catholic Church. That's why the Vatican keeps addressing this problem, I think.

Of course, the Popes are probably also are trying to avoid losing members to more secular leftwing movements, including Marxist socialism & leftwing anarchism. -- democratic socialist.

Maybe he should show me how it's done first. Bankers' best guesses about the Vatican's wealth put it at $10 billion to $15 billion. Of this wealth, Italian stockholdings alone run to $1.6 billion, 15% of the value of listed shares on the Italian market.

The Vatican has big investments in banking, insurance, chemicals, steel, construction, real estate. Dividends help pay for Vatican expenses and charities such as assisting 1,500,000 children and providing some measure of food and clothing to 7,000,000 needy Italians. Unlike ordinary stockholders, the Vatican pays no taxes on this income, wh http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl... Vatican pays no taxes on this income Vatican pays no taxes on this income.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.