Peace Is Not Simply The Absence Of

Without Repeating Everything That We Have Already Mentioned, It Is Appropriate First Of All To Emphasize The Following Point: For The Church, The First Means Of Evangelization Is The Witness Of An Authentically Christian Life, Given Over To God In A Communion That Nothing Should Destroy And At The Same Time Given To One's Neighbor With Limitless Zeal. As We Said Recently To A Group Of Lay People, “modern Man Listens More Willingly To Witnesses Than To Teachers, And If He Does Listen To Teachers, It Is Because They Are Witnesses.

The Mass Is The Most Perfect Form Of Prayer.

Individual Initiative Alone And The Mere Free Play Of Competition Could Never Assure Successful Development. One Must Avoid The Risk Of Increasing Still More The Wealth Of The Rich And The Dominion Of The Strong, Whilst Leaving The Poor In Their Misery And Adding To The Servitude Of The Oppressed.

Anger Is As A Stone Cast Into A Wasp's Nest.

For Peace Is Not Simply The Absence Of Warfare, Based On A Precarious Balance Of Power; It Is Fashioned By Efforts Directed Day After Day Toward The Establishment Of The Ordered Universe Willed By God, With A More Perfect Form Of Justice Among Men.