Pope: Everyone’s responsible for peace building

(Vatican Radio) Pope Benedict XVI’s message for the 2013 World Day of Peace “in the complexity of the present time, will encourage everyone to take responsibility with regard to peacebuilding”, announced the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Monday as it announced the theme Holy Father’s 46^th Message: “Blessed are the peacemakers”.

A press release stated: “The Message will embrace, therefore, the fullness and diversity of the concept of peace, starting from the human being: inner peace and outer peace; then, highlighting the anthropological emergency, the nature and incidence of nihilism; and, at the same time, fundamental rights, in the first place freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of religion.

The Message will offer, as well, an ethical reflection on some measures the world is going to take to contain the financial and economic crisis, the educational crisis, the crisis of the institutions and politics, which is also - in many cases - a worrying crisis of democracy.

The Message will also look at the 50^th Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and of the encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris, according to which the primacy is always for the human dignity and its freedom, for the building of an earthly city to the service of every person, without any discrimination, and directed to the common good which is based on justice and true peace.

"Blessed are the peacemakers" will be the eighth Message of Pope Benedict XVI for the Celebration of the World Day of Peace. Following are the titles of the previous ones: "In Truth, Peace" (2006), "The Human Person, Heart of Peace" (2007), "The Human Family, a Community of Peace" (2008), "Fighting Poverty to Build peace "(2009)," If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation "(2010)," Religious Freedom, the path to peace "(2011)," Educating young people in justice and peace "(2012)”.