Special mention
Yesterday, in his New Year homily, Pope Benedict XVI recognized the fundamental obstacle to peace: a world that is “unfortunately still marked by ‘hotbeds of tension and conflict caused by growing inequalities between rich and poor, by the dominance of a selfish and individualistic mentality also expressed by an unregulated financial capitalism’.”
The pope expressed his belief that humanity has an “innate vocation to peace” but, as long as the inequalities within contemporary capitalism continue to grow, the goal of the peacemakers remains impossible to achieve.