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As Cardinals Robert McElroy and Charles Bo inaugurate the new Pax Christi Catholic Institute for Nonviolence in Rome, Pope Francis sends his support and calls for charity and nonviolence to guide the world.“Active non-violence is not passivity. It is an effective method of confronting the evil that exists in our world that often engenders conflict.”
The answer to such questions cannot be “continuing war and returning attack for attack or generating new attacks.” Nonviolence represents the “foundation” of the Church and “its witness and its efforts should tend to assist particular situations of conflict in the world.” This will involve a “difficult” task, “not always effective,” but still “the Christian way in its essence.”The conversation among the four speakers was preceded by a brief speech by Archbishop Giovanni Ricchiuti, president of Pax Christi in Italy, who reported Pope Francis’ greetings.
They urge us “to march forward with courage, toward a promised land where every brother and sister lives in dignity, peace, and prosperity.” The Cardinal recalled the sufferings of the Israeli, Palestinian, and Ukrainian peoples, as well as those in his homeland of Myanmar. In this context, the creation of the Institute “will help us reclaim the nonviolence of Jesus, drawing from the wisdom of theological reflection, the practical strategies for addressing violence, and, most importantly, the lived experiences of marginalized communities who embody this radical call to peace.”Sister Teresia Wachira recalled that the basis of nonviolence is “welcoming everyone, even the enemy.
The moderator, Dr. Maria Stephan, then invited Cardinal McElroy for his input, and he pointed out that nonviolence remains “a dream,” yet something “much better than the nightmare we are living in these days, which is destroying people and their connections.”
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