(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 46th 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 50th Anniversary
of the Second Vatican Council and of the encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII, Pacemin 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)”.