I Address A Strong Appeal

I Already Knew About This Friendship Between St. John Paul Ii And This Philosopher [ana Teresa Tymieniecka] When I Was In Buenos Aires. It Was Known. Also Her Books Are Known.

We Have Observed That, In Society And The World In Which We Live, Selfishness Has Increased More Than Love For Others, And That Men Of Good Will Must Work, Each With His Own Strengths And Expertise, To Ensure That Love For Others Increases Until It Is Equal And Possibly Exceeds Love For Oneself.

We Must Avoid The Spiritual Disease Of The Church That Can Become Self-referential: When This Happens, The Church Itself Becomes Sick. It’s True That Accidents Can Happen When You Go Out Into The Street, As Can Happen To Any Man Or Woman. But If The Church Remains Closed Onto Itself, Self-referential, It Grows Old. Between A Church That Goes Into The Street And Gets Into An Accident And A Church That Is Sick With Self-referentiality, I Have No Doubts In Preferring The First.

I Believe That In Pretty Much Every Religion There Is Always A Small Group Of Fundamentalists.

Christians Are Those Who Let God Clothe Them With Goodness And Mercy, With Christ, So As To Become, Like Christ, Servants Of God And Others.