"Peace is an order enlivened and integrated
by love, in such a way that we feel the needs
of others as our own, share our goods with others
and work throughout the world for greater communion
in spiritual values. It is an order achieved in
freedom, that is, in a way consistent with the dignity
of persons who, by their very nature as rational beings,
take responsibility for their own actions.
Peace is not a dream or something utopian; it is
possible. Our gaze needs to go deeper, beneath superficial appearances and
phenomena, to discern a positive reality which exists in human hearts, since
every man and woman has been created in the image of God and is called to grow
and contribute to the building of a new world."
Pope Benedict XVI
