WASHINGTON - The Catholic Church worldwide will celebrate the 43th World Day of Peace on New Year?s Day. Pope Benedict XVI has chosen ?If You Want to Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation? as the theme for 2010 celebration.
Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, welcomed Pope Benedict?s message for World Day of Peace (WDP) as he called on Catholics in the United States to work and pray for peace.
?Pope Benedict seamlessly weaves together concerns for peace, poverty and care for creation. He calls on us to act to protect both human and environmental ecology for the two are inseparably linked,? Cardinal George said.