Globalization and the global common good

Abstract

The term globalization derives from the noun globe, which, among its various meanings, means earth, the planet we inhabit. It is also used in the globe or terrestrial form as a ground equivalent. The term globalization refers to the striking fact of the countless international or global realizations that characterize our time, which, in some ways, in aspects of conception of the world, were implicit in the richest thought that has come since ancient times.
It is up to the Church to have the essential and characteristic property of Catholicity. This means that it is open and has to continue to be open to all men of all times and places until the end of the story. This character of catholicity or universality (from the Greek KATHOLIKUS) is already outlined in the Old Testament, but is imposed above all on the vocation of St. Paul as an Apostle of the Gentiles. Jesus asks the Father, in the priestly prayer of the day of the Last Supper, that they may all be one "as You and I, Father, are one", that the world may believe.