This partial excerpt from a National Catholic Register online article describes Cardinal Renato Martino underscoring the revolutionary content of Benedict's message for the World Day of Peace.
Once again, I have taken the liberty to mark up these comments in order to demonstrate to my readers the globalist, socialist, and spiritual intentions behind them.
The article can be found on the NCR website.
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Pope's 'Cosmic Vision of Peace'
Posted by EDWARD PENTIN
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:29 AM
In his World Day of Peace Message for 2010, Pope Benedict XVI highlights the “urgent need” to protect the environment in order to cultivate peace, Cardinal Renato Martino said yesterday.
Releasing the message, with the theme “If You Want to Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation,” the outgoing president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace said the Pope has presented a “cosmic vision of peace.”
The cardinal stressed the message “recalls the Church’s commitment to defending the Earth” and enumerates a series of “perspectives for the shared progress of humankind.” This series includes “a non-reductive vision of the nature of human beings,” a call to collective responsibility, and “a profound revision of development models.”
The Holy Father, he added, highlights the “urgent need for action,” although he “does not propose technical solutions and does not seek to interfere in the policy of governments.”
Cardinal Martino also explained how the text of the papal message calls for a coherent approach to “the universal destination of the goods of creation” and underlines “the need for renewed solidarity” between generations and between developed and developing countries.
The cardinal also stressed that that approach must “avoid partial viewpoints that tend to exaggerate certain responsibilities more than others.” The cardinal noted the Pope calls “for a balanced use of energy resources.”
Cardinal Martino said that Benedict concludes his message with an “expression of hope in the intelligence and dignity of man,” tracing “a path of profound harmony, both interior and exterior, between the Creator, humankind and creation.”
In closing, the cardinal noted the Pope’s deliberate decision to dedicate his message this year to the theme of ecology, as it coincides with the 30th anniversary of the proclamation of St. Francis of Assisi, author of the Laudes Creaturarum, as patron saint of the environment.
“Love for creation, if projected onto a spiritual horizon, can lead mankind to brotherhood with his fellows and to union with God,” he said.
