By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI’s message for the 43rd World Day of Peace, to be celebrated January 1, 2010, encourages lifestyles marked by “sobriety and solidarity,” warns about eco-fanaticism opening up a “new pantheism tinged with neopaganism” and calls for an acknowledgement of the “indivisible relationship between God, human beings and the whole of creation.”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Pope Benedict XVI’s World Day of Peace message for Jan. 1, 2009, entitled “Fighting Poverty to Build Peace” highlights much more than just the material poverty experienced in the world today. He calls attention to “tragic situations of poverty” such as the spiritual and moral malaise in the West, the lack of proper healthcare in developing nations, greed-driven financial systems and the threat globalization poses to the poor.
