Pope Francis: Message to peacebuilding conference

[gilliam]

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a Message to the participants in a major conference sponsored by Pax Christi International, the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, exploring the theme: Nonviolence and Just Peace: Contributing to the Catholic Understanding of and Commitment to Nonviolence.

Addressed to the President of the Pontical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson, the Message renews the Holy Father’s call for an end to the use of the death penalty, and calls on all people of good will to recognize what Christians profess as a consequence of faith: that it is only by considering our peers as brothers and sisters that humanity can overcome wars and conflicts.

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[christofirst]

“finally, I would like to invite all those present to support two requests I addressed to governmental authorities in this Jubilee Year: ** to abolish the death penalty where it is still in force,** and to consider the possibility of an amnesty; and to forgive or manage in a sustainable way the international debt of the poorer nations.”

I think this peace conference will be largely ignored by many of us, as will the above request of Pope Francis, dismissed as just another one of his non-binding suggestions.