Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

But we must wait and see, for experience shows that the papacy in the Catholic Church today is such a challenge that it can change anyone.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.