While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.

To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!

To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

We all have the duty to do good.

The goods of the earth are meant for everyone.

Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.