Fighting Poverty To Build Peace - Part 1

Quotes from the Message of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
for the Celebration of the World Day of Peace
“Fighting Poverty To Build Peace”
January 1, 2009

The Church has always been committed to the poor.
“The Church's social teaching has always been concerned with the poor. . . While attentively following the current phenomena of globalization and their impact on human poverty, the Church points out the new aspects of the social question, not only in their breadth but also in their depth, insofar as they concern man's identity and his relationship with God. These principles of social teaching tend to clarify the links between poverty and globalization and they help to guide action towards the building of peace. Among these principles, it is timely to recall in particular the “preferential love for the poor” (no. 15).