'It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures to make social, political and economic structures more equitable', and establishing true solidarity among peoples.
Pope Benedict XVI to Bishops of Mexico, 29 September 2005
‘Our task is to shape a new economic system which can ensure sustainable development for all... Young people… hope for a time when war will be no more, when we will use our knowledge and resources not to fight against each other, but instead to fight together against discrimination, disease and despair. Their dream is what ethical globalisation means to me.’
Desmond Tutu, Emeritus Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, 2004.
[H]ow can we accept that there are people in this country who everyday are victims of poverty, racism, physical or sexual abuse, homelessness. What’s happened to the concept of the “common good”?… It is a time when those of us who believe in the living Word of God must engage strongly in the national and international life of God’s world.’
Reverend Gregor Henderson, President of the Uniting Church in Australia, 2006.
'The Eucharist urges the Christian to be the "broken bread" for others, to commit oneself for a more just and more fraternal world.'
Pope Benedict, at close of Rome Synod on the Eucharist, 2005.
'I see no way of realistically denying or ignoring the rapid spiral of environmental crisis in which we are now caught'.
Archbishop Rowan Williams, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury.