In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.