Pope ‘s theme for World Day of Peace 2012– “Educating young people in justice and
peace”
(May 19, 2011) “Educating young people in justice and peace” is the theme chosen
by Pope Benedict XVI for the World Day of Peace 2012, said a communiqué on Thursday
from Vatican’s Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace. The Catholic Church celebrates
the World Day of Peace annually on the 1st of January. The theme of the
45th World Day of Peace for 2012 states that there is an urgent need
in the world today to enhance the important role of new generations in the realization
of the common good and in the affirmation of a just and peaceful order, where fundamental
rights can be fully expressed and realized. The Papal message says it is the duty
of the present generation to prepare the base and create conditions for future generations
to act freely and responsibly for a new world. The Papal message affirms that the
Church welcomes young people as it sees them as a sign of an ever promising springtime,
and holds out Jesus to them as a model of love “who makes all things new.” Pope Benedict’s
message calls on all those responsible for public policy, to work for the creation
of institutions, laws and environments of life that are permeated by transcendent
humanism and offer new generations the opportunities to fully realize themselves
by giving them a good education, a decent job and other essentials, to build a civilization
of fraternal love, directed towards a more profound awareness of truth, freedom, of
love and of justice for all persons.