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Christ Did Not Found An Abstract Religion, A Mere School Of Religious Thought. He Setup A Community Of Apostles, Of Teachers, With The Task Of Spreading His Message And So Giving Rise To A Society Of Believers: His Church. He Promised The Spirit Of Truth To His Church And Then Sent Him.

The Task Of Evangelizing All People Constitutes The Essential Mission Of The Church. It Is A Task And Mission Which The Vast And Profound Changes Of Present-day Society Make All The More Urgent. Evangelizing Is In Fact The Grace And Vocation Proper To The Church, Her Deepest Identity. She Exists In Order To Evangelize.

Man Is Suddenly Becoming Aware That By An Ill-considered Exploitation Of Nature He Risks Destroying It And Becoming In His Turn The Victim Of This Degradation. Not Only Is The Material Environment Becoming A Permanent Menace - Pollution And Refuse, New Illness And Absolute Destructive Capacity - But The Human Framework Is No Longer Under Man's Control, Thus Creating An Environment For Tomorrow Which May Well Be Intolerable. This Is A Wide-ranging Social Problem Which Concerns The Entire Human Family.

You Must Strive To Multiply Bread So That It Suffices For The Tables Of Mankind, And Not Rather Favor An Artificial Control Of Birth, Which Would Be Irrational, In Order To Diminish The Number Of Guests At The Banquet Of Life.

Technological Society Has Succeeded In Multiplying The Opportunities For Pleasure, But It Has Great Difficulty In Generating Joy.