Pope encourages new diplomats to think globally
During his welcoming speech to twelve new diplomats to the Holy See on Wednesday, Pope Benedict advised them to see that humanity's growing interdependence in the era of globalisation means "we are all responsible for everything".."Humanity today must strive towards the goal of integral human development", he said.
Among those presenting their letters of credence were representatives from Trinidad and Tobago, the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, the Swiss Confederation, Burundi, Thailand, Pakistan, Mozambique, Kyrgyzstan, the Principality of Andorra, Sri Lanka and Burkina Faso.
Pope Benedict said today we must pursue the common good by promoting solidarity among generations, protecting the dignity of every human being and protecting nature - and without the fear that this common responsibility clashes with religious and cultural differences.
"The unity of the human family is an everyday fact," he said, and it "significantly broadens the scope of our shared responsibility", while at the same time it renders the solution of problems "proportionally complex to the number of those seeking to solve them".
Interdependence must not be lived "as a threat, but as an advantage that people have to work with each other, for each other."
Source: VIS