Pope's encyclical calls for 'world political authority'


Pope Benedict XVI signs his new encyclical at his studio in the Vatican yesterday. Photograph: L'Osservatore Romano/Getty Images

PADDY AGNEW in Rome

THERE WAS a full house in the Vatican yesterday for the presentation of Pope Benedict XVI’s long-awaited encyclical on social teaching, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), a document on “integral human developmentâ€