BENEDICT XVI: "THE HUMAN BEING: THE HEART OF PEACE", THE MESSAGE FOR THE WORLD DAY OF 2007(2)

” “"Ideologies imbued with nihilism or fanaticism (either materialist or religious)", which – reads the release of the Vatican newsroom – "do deny or impose alleged truths about reality, man or God"; science and technique – especially biomedicine – which "often, instead of serving the common good of man, are exploited for a selfish view of progress and wellbeing"; "propaganda and the growing acceptance of lifestyles that are chaotic and opposed to human dignity", which go so far as "to kill the desire of an orderly and peaceful cohabitation": according to the Holy See, these are the main challenges that "threaten man". "The mission of the Church – recalls the release – is to announce the Gospel of Life, the centrality of man in the universe and God’s love for man". To the "challenges of these times", the Church "responds with a Christian anthropology, resting on the three pillars of dignity, sociality and human action in the world which is to be oriented to the order imparted by God to the universe". "Every offence made to man is a threat to peace; every threat to peace is an offence to the truth of man and God", specifies the release.” “