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   YEAR XXII - # 088   
   DATE 12-05-2015   
      
   Summary:   
   - Where there is no justice, there is no peace   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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    Where there is no justice, there is no peace   
    Vatican City, 12 May 2015 (VIS) - "Peace is built day by day. ... It is not an   
   industrial product, it is an artisanal product. It is crafted every day with   
   our   
   work, with our life, with our closeness", said Pope Francis yesterday to the   
   children of the Peace Factory, the Italian association that aims to promote   
   multi-ethnic integration and to raise awareness among spiritual leaders,   
   politicians and in education so that they use a language of peace.   
    Francis answered the very direct and concrete questions posed by thirteen of   
   the seven thousand children who filled the Paul VI Hall. Some were very   
   personal: for instance, a girl asked if, like her, the Pope ever argued with   
   his   
   siblings or other members of his family. "We have all argued with someone in   
   our   
   family", replied the Pope. "It is part of life, as one sibling wants to play   
   one   
   game, another wants to play a different one ... but in the end the important   
   thing   
   is to make peace. ... Do not end the day without making peace. At times I may   
   be   
   right and the other may be wrong. So how can I apologise? I don't, but I make a   
   gesture of closeness and the friendship continues. ... I too have argued many   
   times, even now... I lose my temper. But I always try to make peace. It is   
   human   
   to disagree. The important thing is that it does not linger, and that there is   
   peace again afterwards".   
    Another child asked if the Pope ever tired of being surrounded by so many   
   people, and if he too needed some peace every now and then. "At times I would   
   like to be calmer, to rest a little more, it is true", he admitted. "But being   
   with people does not take away peace. ... What takes peace away is not caring   
   for   
   one another. Jealousy, envy and greed take away peace. But being with people is   
   good, it does not stand in the way of peace! It tires me a little because it is   
   tiring and I am not a young man ... but it does not take away peace".   
    Other questions were more general, such as that of an Egyptian child who asked   
   why people in positions of power did not help schools. "It is a question we can   
   expand", answered the Pope. "Why do many powerful people not want peace?   
   Because   
   they live from war, from the arms industry. Some powerful people earn from the   
   production of arms, and sell weapons to one country that fights against   
   another,   
   and then they sell them to the other. It is the industry of death! And they   
   earn   
   money in this way. As you know, greed causes so much damage: the desire to have   
   more and more money. When we see that everything revolves around money - the   
   economic system revolves around money and not people - we make sacrifices and   
   make war in order to defend money. And for this reason many people do not want   
   peace. They earn more through war. They earn money, but we lose lives, we lose   
   culture, we lose education, we lose many things. An elderly priest I met years   
   ago used to say, 'the devil enters via the wallet'".   
    The Pope explained to another child who asked for a definition of peace that   
   "peace firstly means there are no wars ... but it also means that there is   
   friendship between all, that every day a step ahead is made for justice, so   
   that   
   there are no more children who are hungry, that there are no more sick children   
   who do not have the possibility of receiving healthcare. Doing all of this   
   means   
   making peace. Peace involves work, it is not about staying calm and doing   
   nothing. No! True peace means working so that everyone has a solution to the   
   problems, to the needs, that they have in their land, in their homeland, in   
   their family, in their society".   
    "In your opinion, will we all be equal one day?" was another of the questions.   
   "We can answer this question in two ways", replied the Holy Father. "We are all   
   equal - all of us - but this truth is not recognised, this equality is not   
   recognised, and for this reason some people are, we can say, happier than   
   others. But this is not a right! We all have the same rights. When we do not   
   see   
   this, society is unjust. It does not follow the rule of justice, and where   
   there   
   is no justice, there cannot be peace. I would like to repeat this with you:   
   where there is no justice, there is no peace!".   
    The meeting concluded with a chorus of seven thousand voices, repeating with   
   the Pope, "Where there is no justice, there is no peace".   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 12 May 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Ariel   
   Edgardo Torrado Mosconi, auxiliary of the diocese of Santiago del Estero,   
   Argentina, as coadjutor of the diocese of Nueve de Julio, (area 57,016,   
   population 442,000, Catholics 395,000, priests 46, permanent deacons 5,   
   religious 103) Argentina.   
      
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