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PEACEDAY-THEME Jun-19-2007 (300 words) xxxi
Pope chooses family as theme for 2008 World Peace Day message
By John Thavis
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has chosen "The Human Family: Community of Peace" as the theme of next year's World Peace Day message, the Vatican announced.
The awareness that all populations belong to a larger family created by God is especially important in today's world, which faces "a crisis of international organizations" and other serious problems, the Vatican said in a statement June 19. It did not elaborate.
The pope will write a message on the theme, to be released ahead of the World Peace Day celebration Jan. 1. Pope Benedict's two previous messages have focused on truth and the person as fundamental elements of peace.
The Vatican said the pope chose the theme of the unity of the family because he was convinced that "the perception of a common destiny and the experience of communion are essential factors for the realization of the common good and for the peace of humanity."
"Every person, every population is called to experience and feel themselves part of the human family conceived by God as a community of peace," it said.
The Vatican statement cited the Second Vatican Council's teaching that the world's populations form a single community and have a common origin in divine creation.
"Every group must take into account the needs and legitimate aspirations of every other group, and still more of the human family as a whole," it said, quoting from the council's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World ("Gaudium et Spes.")
Just as the dignity of the person created in the image of God is affirmed in the Old Testament, the idea of the unity of the family is also one of the original truths of Christianity, the statement said.
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