"In these days of rest, which, thank God, I am spending here in Cadore, I feel the painful impact of the news reaching me even more intensely, news about gory crashes and episodes of violence taking place in many parts of the world. Once again, this leads me to ponder over the drama of human freedom in the world". Benedict XVI said that yesterday morning, before introducing the Angelus, from Piazza Calvi, in Lorenzago di Cadore, where the Pope has been staying from July 9th, for a period of rest. "The beauty of nature he went on recalls us that we were placed by God in this ‘garden’, known as the Earth, ‘to cultivate it and take care of it’. If men lived in peace with God and with each other, the Earth would really look like ‘Paradise’", but sin "spoiled this divine project, generating divisions, and making death enter the world". Thus, it happens that men "make war to each other. As a consequence, in this wonderful garden, the world, there are ‘hell’ areas". "War, with its burden of deaths and destruction said the Pope, – has justly and always been considered a calamity, opposing the project of God, who created everything for existence and, in particular, with the intention of making humankind a family". (to be continued)
