Peace Is Not Simply The Absence Of

If You Believe In Peace It Is Possible. If It Is Possible It Is A Duty.

The Command To The Twelve To Go Out And Proclaim The Good News Is Also Valid For All Christians, Though In A Different Way.... The Good News Of The Kingdom Which Is Coming And Which Has Begun Is Meant For All People Of All Times. Those Who Have Received The Good News And Who Have Been Gathered By It Into The Community Of Salvation Can And Must Communicate And Spread It.

For You Deal Here Above All With Human Life, And Human Life Is Sacred; No One May Dare Make An Attempt Upon It. Respect For Life, Even With Regard To The Great Problem Of The Birth Rate, Must Find Here In Your Assembly Its Highest Affirmation And Its Most Rational Defense. Your Task Is To Ensure That There Is Enough Bread On The Tables Of Mankind, And Not To Encourage An Artificial Control Of Births, Which Would Be Irrational, In Order To Diminish The Number Of Guests At The Banquet Of Life.

The Hungry Nations Of The World Cry Out To The Peoples Blessed With Abundance. And The Church, Cut To The Quick By This Cry, Asks Each And Every Man To Hear His Brother's Plea And Answer It Lovingly.

The Religion Of The God Who Became Man Has Met The Religion (for Such It Is) Of Man Who Makes Himself God. And What Happened? Was There A Clash, A Battle, A Condemnation? There Could Have Been, But There Was None