VATICAN - The Pope’s Message for the World Day of Peace 2007: “The human person, the heart of peace”. “I am convinced that respect for the person promotes peace and that, in building peace, the foundations are laid for an authentic integral humanism”.

Tuesday, 12 December 2006

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pope’s annual Message for the World Day of Peace, 1 January 2007 was made public this morning at the Holy See press office. “The human person, the heart of peace” is the theme chosen by Pope Benedict XVI who writes: “I am convinced that respect for the person promotes peace and that, in building peace, the foundations are laid for an authentic integral humanism. In this way a serene future is prepared for coming generations.”. As Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace underlined when he presented the message to the media , “this year’s Message should be read and seen as a continuation and complement to the previous one. The person and peace recall each other constantly in fecund circularity which constitutes the premise the most solid presupposition for a correct cultural, social and political approach to the complex themes relative to achievement of peace in our day”. The Message, articulated in three parts, progressively treats the human person in relation to the various aspects of the promotion of peace.
As Cardinal Martino pointed out “part one highlights the sense of value of the connection between the human person and peace understood and proposed by means of theological-spiritual categories of the gift and the task; part two deals places the truth of the human person in relation with the new and innovative concept of ecology of peace; part three considers the human person in reference to the complex reality of respect for human rights, international humanitarian law and certain responsibilities inherent to the activity of international organisations. The Message concludes with a call to all Christians to be builders of peace”.
Tomorrow Fides will give a summary of the Message. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 12/12/2006 - Righe 22, parole 320)


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