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Peacebuilding 2013: Pacem in Terris at 50

Date:

Apr 9, 2013

Location:

The Catholic University of America, Washington DC

A major conference on peace will be held April 9-10 at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; it is sponsored by the Catholic Peacebuilding Network and over a dozen Catholic universities and agencies to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the encyclical Pacem in terris and explore Catholic peacebuilding today.

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John XXIII signs Pacem in Terris April 1963

Pacem in Terris and the new challenge of peace

Two notable characteristics of Pope John XXIII’s great encyclical, Pacem in Terris, written almost 50 years ago in 1963, were its scope and its optimism. The sweeping content of the document says relatively little directly about war, concentrating instead on describing the kind of political, social, economic and cultural conditions that generate peace/shalom on earth – right relationships based on justice, respect, love and solidarity – from the interpersonal to the national to the global. The following reflection is written by Marie Dennis.

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