Promotion of Peace and Disarmament

Catholic teaching promotes peace as a positive, action-oriented concept. In the words of Pope John Paul II, "Peace is not just the
absence of war. It involves mutual respect and confidence between peoples and nations. It involves collaboration and binding agreements.”
There is a close relationship in Catholic teaching between peace and justice.
Peace is the fruit of justice and is dependent upon right order among human beings.

Participation:

  All people have a right to participate in the economic, political, and cultural life of society.
It is a fundamental demand of justice and a requirement for human dignity that all people be assured a
minimum level of participation in the community. It is wrong for a person or a group to be excluded unfairly or to be unable to participate in society.

Global Solidarity and Development:

We are one human family. Our responsibilities to each other cross national, racial, economic and ideological differences.
We are called to work globally for justice. Authentic development must be full human development. It must respect and promote personal,
social, economic, and political rights, including the rights of nations and of peoples It must avoid the extremists of underdevelopment on the
one hand, and "superdevelopment" on the other.

Questions:

1. What is the Catholic teaching regarding the requirement to maintaining peace?
2. Why is it wrong to exclude people from participating in society?
3. What are our global responsibilities to each other?

Answers:

1. It shows that to achieve peace we have to act not just sit around and expect it to happen.It teaches us that peace is positive and without Peace
the world would be a horrible , unsafe place to live in.

2. A everyone is equal just because people talk differently or look different doesn't mean that they are not exactly the same person that we are all Human beings
and saying that we should all be Humane.

3. Our responsibilities are that we have to treat everyone fairly and not exclude anyone as of appearences, or economic differences and even those differences
in opinion or learning.