Consult Not Your Fears, But

The Council Now Beginning Rises In The Church Like The Daybreak, A Forerunner Of Most Splendid Light.

The Solidarity Which Binds All Men Together As Members Of A Common Family Makes It Impossible For Wealthy Nations To Look With Indifference Upon The Hunger, Misery And Poverty Of Other Nations Whose Citizens Are Unable To Enjoy Even Elementary Human Rights. The Nations Of The World Are Becoming More And More Dependent On One Another And It Will Not Be Possible To Preserve A Lasting Peace So Long As Glaring Economic And Social Imbalances Persist.

I Am Able To Follow My Own Death Step By Step. Now I Move Softly Towards The End.

Mankind Is A Great, An Immense Family... This Is Proved By What We Feel In Our Hearts At Christmas.

Today The Universal Common Good Poses Problems Of World-wide Dimensions, Which Cannot Be Adequately Tackled Or Solved Except By The Efforts Of Public Authorities Endowed With A Wideness Of Powers, Structure And Means Of The Same Proportions; That Is... On A World-wide Basis.