{"id":1202,"date":"2007-07-22T09:39:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T09:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/07\/let-there-be-peace.html"},"modified":"2007-07-22T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T09:39:51","slug":"let-there-be-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/07\/let-there-be-peace.html","title":{"rendered":"Let there be peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, on vacation, the Pope prayed the Angelus and had some words:<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cNever again war!\u201d: from the mountains of Cadore, a place of great natural beauty that was transformed into a theatre of slaughter during the First World War, Benedict XVI \"Pope\"<\/a> launched an appeal that the path of peace and dialogue be chosen above conflict. The mountains around Lorenzago where the Pope is spending his vacation this year, still bear the scares of trenches and dig outs, built by the soldiers of the war.  Recalling that \u201cGreat War\u201d and the appeal launched by Benedict XVI, who in 1917 asked the world to stop the \u201csenseless slaughter\u201d, the Pope dedicated the words pronounced before the Angelus prayer in Piazza Calvi, of Lorenzago di Cadore, to the value of peace.<\/p>\n

There to hear his words, among the festive crowds of faithful and tourists, was also the Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Angelo Scola, the bishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, who had travelled to Cadore with a group of deacons and their families, the president of the Italian bishops conference, Msgr. Angelo Bagnasco, the bishop of Belluno-Feltre, Msgr. Giuseppe Andrich, the bishop of  Treviso, Msgr. Andrea Bruno Mazzocato, Edoardo Luciani, brother of John Paul I \u2013 whom the Pope described as \u201cmy great friend\u201d –  and representatives of the lay associations from the diocese of Belluno-Feltre, whom he greeted after the Marian prayer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn these days of rest, – said the Pope – I feel even more intensely the painful impact of the news I receive about bloody conflicts and violent events happening in so many parts of the world. This leads me to reflect once again on the dramatic situation of human freedom in the world.  The beauty of nature reminds us that we were instructed by God to cultivate and keep this garden that is the earth (Gen 2, 8-17). If men lived in peace with God and with each other, the earth really would look like a ‘heaven’\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately sin has ruined this divine project \u2013 continued Benedict XVI \u2013 generating division and allowing death to enter this world. Thus men by succumbing to the temptations of Evil, make war with each other.  The consequence is that in this stupendous garden which is the world, there is now room for hell. War, with its after effects of destruction and death, has always been rightly considered a calamity which contrasts God\u2019s project, who created everything to give life and who wants to make mankind one family\u201d. <\/p>\n

The Pope therefore re-evoked the appeal launched<\/a> by Benedict XV<\/a> 90 years ago on August 1st 1917, when he asked the nations at war to put an end to that inhuman conflict which he had the courage to define as a \u201csenseless slaughter\u201d.  \u201cThis expression of his \u2013 continued the Pope \u2013 is carved into history. It was justified by the concrete situation of the summer of 1917, especially by what was taking place on this North Italian front.  But those words \u2018senseless slaughter\u2019, contain a greater more prophetic value and can be applied to the many other conflicts which have cruelly broken countless lives. This very land were we find ourselves, which emanates peace and harmony, was a theatre of the First World War, as many testimonies and some moving Alpine songs still recall today. These events must not be forgotten! We must treasure the negative experiences which our fathers unfortunately had to suffer, so they will never happen again.  Pope Benedict XV\u2019s Nota <\/em>did not limit itself to condemning the war; it also indicated, along juridical lines, the ways to build a just and lasting peace: the moral force of law, balanced and controlled disarmament, arbitration in controversy, the freedom of the seas, the reciprocal remission of war costs, the restitution of seized lands and fair negotiations to resolve outstanding issues\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

PRF has a full translation (scroll down) – on the same thread you’ll find stories related to the Pope’s vacation, his encounters with people on his walks, and so on.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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