Promoting peace and unity

Because the Work’s apostolate is full of real fraternity, it must tend to foster mutual understanding and so create around us an atmosphere of peace and serene co-existence. This will remove the possible obstacles – there are still so many of them! – to people’s unity with one another and with God our Lord.

Therefore, anything which limits the Christian view of the world, people or things, or reduces it out of parochialism or selfishness, is alien to the spirit of the Work. We identify with St Paul’s teaching to the Corinthians about the unity of the Church, which is a figure of the unity of the whole human race: in one Spirit we were all baptised into one body – Jews or Greeks, slaves or free – and all were made to drink of one Spirit (1Cor 12:13).