These days of December 2015, at the Paris Summit, our concern is focussed on the need to arrest the global warming leading to a "Climate Change" that threatens Human Life and consequently Nature itself. We hope the conclusions emerging from the PS will awaken our joint responsibility to respond to the challenge and implement certain strategic action to save our universe.
Pope Francis in his encyclical, "Laudato Si" , has alerted not only the Church but the entire world to address this major concern for our "common home" and invited prayers for an effective resolution at the Paris Summit. A resolution that admits our common admission of guilt and a greater solidarity of involvement in the global campaign to arrest Climate Change.
But now, on 8th. December 2015, with his letter, "Vultus Misericordiae", Pope Francis has pointed to an even major concern than Climate Change. We may term it "Clemency Change". In recent times, the world over, dehumanising and destructive wars are tearing into the prosperous and peaceful fabric of our human society our society. As never before, as Pope Francis observes, we are already trapped in a "Third World War", piecemeal.
The need for "Clemency Change" is urgent, both at national and international levels. The strategy that Pope Francis has indicated, is a sincere belief in the "God of mercy" who chose to reveal His merciful heart in the mystery of the "incarnation of Divine Mercy".
Created to the image of God, the merciful, and guided by the incarnate manifestation of Divine Mercy, Jesus Christ, are called to be in turn merciful brothers and sisters to each other. The concrete and personal experience of God's mercy, Pope Francis believes, will transform our generation into a merciful society,
"Be merciful for I am merciful".
Pope Francis in his encyclical, "Laudato Si" , has alerted not only the Church but the entire world to address this major concern for our "common home" and invited prayers for an effective resolution at the Paris Summit. A resolution that admits our common admission of guilt and a greater solidarity of involvement in the global campaign to arrest Climate Change.
But now, on 8th. December 2015, with his letter, "Vultus Misericordiae", Pope Francis has pointed to an even major concern than Climate Change. We may term it "Clemency Change". In recent times, the world over, dehumanising and destructive wars are tearing into the prosperous and peaceful fabric of our human society our society. As never before, as Pope Francis observes, we are already trapped in a "Third World War", piecemeal.
The need for "Clemency Change" is urgent, both at national and international levels. The strategy that Pope Francis has indicated, is a sincere belief in the "God of mercy" who chose to reveal His merciful heart in the mystery of the "incarnation of Divine Mercy".
Created to the image of God, the merciful, and guided by the incarnate manifestation of Divine Mercy, Jesus Christ, are called to be in turn merciful brothers and sisters to each other. The concrete and personal experience of God's mercy, Pope Francis believes, will transform our generation into a merciful society,
"Be merciful for I am merciful".
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