By Joseph D'Hippolito, The Stream - Francis Is Not an Outlier... Francis’ globalist activism, far from being unusual, culminates Catholicism’s approach to besetting worldwide problems. For the past six decades, the church embraced a vision of social justice that demands a centralized authority to govern international law, diplomacy, economics and resource allocation worldwide for “the common good,” a phrase the Vatican frequently uses... The Vatican’s embrace of utopian globalism began at the Second Vatican Council, which met between 1962-65 to respond to modern problems. A pastoral document concerning economics and politics, Gaudium et Spes, provided the fundamental vision