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Doctrinal principles
A new vision of mission in an era of globalization, with a strong call to apostolic collaboration
among the different religious families.
On the anthropological level: we must promote, on the strength of the Gospel lived by our
founders and foundresses, a globalization of the consideration of the human person and his/her dignity, based on a common nature and a fundamental equality among all human beings.
On the theological level: it is necessary to open ourselves to a unified vision of the salvific
plan: creation (God Father and Creator of all), incarnation, redemption in Christ, effusion and presence of the Holy Spirit on all humans. It is a question of discovering the Trinitarian imprint of communion, the call to mutuality in each person and in each culture. And for this, it is necessary to be educated to a positive evaluation of human-evangelic values wherever they are found, as the active presence of Christ and his Spirit in all persons and cultures. That involves a special attention to the presence of the seeds of the Word and the breath of the Spirit, even in their limitations, which are not lacking even in the Church.
Gatherings like those of Assisi, with the many representatives of Churches and religions
together, to pray and commit themselves to peace, cannot be understood without a high theology that justifies being together without contaminating each other, but rather stimulating each other. Let it be based on the values of justice and peace, tolerance and pardon, love and prayer that cannot but come from the action of the Holy Spirit.
On the sociological level: By now we are living in a world no longer divided and separate,
but mixed together, thanks to the flow of migrations which also show mutual need of each other. We cannot ignore each other. By now words like mission and ecumenism, charity and dialog do not refer to lands distant from ours, but in our cities where we now live with persons of other nations, other cultures, other Churches and religions…