Pope Warns of “Threatening Shadows” Over Humanity

Warnings come during the 26th anniversary of his pontificate

Kicking off the Year of the Eucharist, Pope John Paul II used his 26th anniversary to issue a warning with regards to the state of humanity:

‘The world needs light in the difficult search for a peace which appears distant, at the beginning of a millennium ravaged and humiliated by the violence of terrorism and war.’

He spoke of ‘threatening shadows’ hanging over the human race, among them that of a ‘scientific research sometimes put to the service of the selfishness of the strongest.’.

‘What stronger aspiration is there than that of life?’ he asked.”

Money, materialism, fanaticism, power. . . there’s the short list. Can anyone argue that these have not robbed primacy from our first principles of life, liberty, and property?