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Pope sees dialogue as way to peace VATICAN CITY (NC): "Dialogue, from the conference tables of world leaders to the discussions in neighbourhoods and families, is the indispensable way to peace," said Pope John Paul II in his message for the World Day of Peace, celebrated by Catholics on January 1.
"Is it not necessary to do human lives, in suffering, be dissociated from dia- "Every person, whether a The pope called dia- logue was untried or The pope addressed it to everything order to in the devastation of what logue for justice. believer or not," said the logue "an essential was conducted under government leaders, inter- a void war,in even the would be necessary for "The temptation to vio- pontiff, "while remaining condition" for peace false pretences. national officials, politi- 'limited war' as it is euphe- human life and develop- lence and war," he said, prudent and clear-sighted and said the 150 The 3,300-word "will always be present in concerning the possible message, cians, diplomats and mistically called by those ment," the pope said. armed conflicts since released in seven lan- "citizens of each country." who are not directly con- "Today, when even con- societies where greed and hardening of his brother's the end of World War guages, is titled Dialogue The pope said in the cerned in it. Given the evil ventional wars become so the search for material heart, can and must preII were examples of for Peace, a Challenge for future wars promise to be that every war represents, numerous, when one goods impels a wealthy serve enough confidence in situations where dia- Our Time. even "more terrible." its price has to be paid in knows the tragic conse- minority to refuse the mass man, in his capacity of
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VATICAN CITY (NC) — For the second year in a row concern for his native Poland dominated Pope John Paul II's Christmas.
The 62-year -old pope spoke of the situation in his "very beloved homeland" each day during the three-day 1 982 Christmas weekend.
At a Christmas Eve meeting with 800 Poles he said: "I want peace for my very beloved homeland, hoping that it may live not in a state of war but in a state of peace." Pope John Paul criticized the failure of Poland's martial law government to grant a visa to Bishop Tokarczuk of Przemysl, who had planned to visit Rome during 1982. Polish church sources said the bishop was refused a visa because of a homily last September critical of martial law. The government press described the homily as in contrast with "the spirit of accord and collaboration" sought by the church. Referring to his forthcoming June 18 journey to Poland, in a Christmas letter to Archbishop Glemp of W arsaw, he said, "I consider my visit to Poland a duty to the virgin, to the church and to the nation." The letter was read by the Polish primate during a Christmas mass at St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw, Poland. After a traditionaly Polish Christmas dinner prepared by women religious from his native country, Pope John Paul went to St. Peter's Basilica for the Midnight Mass. Before 10,000 people in the Basilica and millions of television viewers in 38 countries, the pope prayed that "the light of this night should reach especially those who are suffering, wherever they are on this earth, whatever their misfortune might be." He said 1983, "which brings with it, according to the traditional date, the 1,950th, anniversary of our redemption," will be particularly dedicated to God. "I earnestly ask you, dear brothers and sisters, to begin today, from the manger of Bethlehem, to look with faith, hope and love to this jubilee that opens before us like a door."
quences that nuclear war of people the satisfaction being reasonable, in his would have, the need to of the most elementary sense of what is good, of stop war or to turn aside its rights to food, education, justice, of fairness, in his threat is all the more impe- health and life." possibility of brotherly rious," he added. love and hope, which are "The Holy See will not never totally perverted, in grow weary in insisting order to aim at recourse to Juridical system upon the need to put a stop dialogue and to the possito the arms race through ble resumption of progressive negotiations, dialogue." by appealing for a reci- Also recommended by The first quality of diathe pontiff was the crea- logue, the pope suggested, procity," the pope said. "Instead of being at the tion of "an international is that each party "listen to service of people, the econ- juridical system which is the explanation of the omy is becoming milita- more receptive to the situation such as the other rised," and "development appeal of those whose party describes it, sincerely and well-being are subor- rights are violated" and feels it, with the real probdinated to security," he which has an effective lems which are proper to added. means of making its the party, its rights, the "Science and technology authority respected. injustices of which it is are being degraded into the The pope emphasised aware, the reasonable auxiliaries of war," the that peace is not a Utopian solutions which it sugpope said. ideal but a realistic hope gests." "Dialogue for peace," the which results from "the A prime obstacle to peace pontiff remarked, "cannot basic aspiration of the men-through dialogue is "a and women of our time" prior decision to concede and the fundamental rea- nothing . . . a refusal to sonableness of people. listen," the pope said. ( . AIAIAI I I1 I I IIII IINI II I AIIIIII IIIIIMIW AIAir.i.
Lest we
forget peace
A s the summer crowds flock to King's Park the memorial to the war dead will suitably recall that for the past 16 years the popes have called on Catholics e verywhere on January 1 to pray for peace and work for its accomplishment.
Pope continues travels V ATICAN CITY (NC) — History's best traveled pope has no plans to slow his pace in the next two years.
The pope plans to visit Austria on September 10, 1983, for the closing ceremonies of a national year of faith. S wiss bishops expect the pontiff to visit Sitzerland for the celebration of Pentecost in June, 1984. T he pope had originally planned a pastoral visit to Switzerland mid-1981, but his plans were changed by the attack on his life in St Peter's Square on May 13 that year.
On June 15, 1982, the pope paid an official one-day visit to Geneva, where he addressed several international organisations, including the Red Cross and the International Labour Organisation. He indicated at that time that in the future he would pay a longer pastoral visit to Swiss Catholics to make up for the pastoral aspect of the missed 1981 trip. The pope will visit Ecuador in mid-1984, during a trip to several Latin American countries. Church sources in Central America forecast a trip there for the pope in the late February of 1983. High on the probability list,
they say, is a stop in Haiti for a Poland, June; Ireland and the meeting of the Council of Latin United States, September American Bishops conference October, Turkey, November; that will be held there at that time. 1980 — Zaire, the Congo, Kenya, C anadian bishops have Ghana, Upper Volta and the already announced a visit of the Ivory Coast, May; France, May; pope to that country in the fall of West Germany, November; 1981 1984, and the Vatican has con- — The Far East, February, Phifirmed that the pope will begin a lippines, Guam and Japan with visit to his native Poland on June refueling stops Pakistan and 18, 1983. Anchorage, Alaska; 1982 -Pope John Paul II's recent Africa, February: The pope's October trip to Spain was the second visit to Africa was to 16th trip he has taken outside of Nigeria, Benin, Gabon and EquiItaly since the beginning of his torial Guinea; Portugal, May; pontificate in October 1981. Great Britain, May; Argentina, The other trips have been: 1979 June with a refuelling stopover of -- Mexico, with refueling stops several hours in Rio de Janeiro, of several hours in the Domini- Brazil; Switzerland, Juniti San can Republic and the Bahamas; Marino, August.
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