” “"The Compendium of the social Doctrine of the Church as an instrument to help young people to confront history, to be strong in the social message of the Gospel": this is the proposal by Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, head of the President of the Pontifical Council for justice and peace, presented, this afternoon, at the meeting of the young workers "Working as new people", promoted, in Cologne, within the Youth Cultural Festival by two offices of the Italian Bishops’ Conference and of other Italian and international associations. The bishop indicated that "there are two fields of commitment in which one can bear the witnessing of christians who are aware of the urgency of working for the fulfilment of mankind, in the direction of peace and justice." The first commitment is "to work to build a culture, an economy and a policy which are open to solidarity and to peace. These values will become significant if also you young people will know how to create consensus around a new criterion of social synthesis, capable of translating aspirations into justice in the ethical choice for common well-being, as a norm of action for everone."The second aspect is that of peace, which "involves everybody, above all you young people". If, on the one hand, it is necessary for there to be an commitment on a world-wide scale, on the other there is a need to "buildn peace even in the ordinary circumstances of life."
