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The Great Challenge Facing Us Today Is To Learn Once Again How To Talk To One Another, Not Simply How To Generate And Consume Information. The Latter Is A Tendency Which Our Important And Influential Modern Communications Media Can Encourage. Information Is Important, But It Is Not Enough. All Too Often Things Get Simplified, Different Positions And Viewpoints Are Pitted Against One Another, And People Are Invited To Take Sides, Rather Than To See Things As A Whole.

There Are People Who Are Afraid To Go To Confession, Forgetting That They Will Not Encounter A Severe Judge There, But The Immensely Merciful Father.

We Are All Jars Of Clay, Fragile And Poor, Yet We Carry Within Us An Immense Treasure.

He Saw The Threat Of The Family Being Destroyed By Not Being Open To Life Or Children. Paul Vi Was Brave. He Was A Good Pastor. He Alerted His Sheep, Telling Them That The Wolves Were Approaching.

Today We Celebrate Earth Day. I Exhort Everyone To See The World Through The Eyes Of God The Creator: The Earth Is An Environment To Be Safeguarded, A Garden To Be Cultivated. The Relationship Of Mankind With Nature Must Not Be Conducted With Greed, Manipulation And Exploitation, But It Must Conserve The Divine Harmony That Exists Between Creatures And Creation Within The Logic Of Respect And Care, So It Can Be Put To The Service Of Our Brothers, Also Of Future Generations.