The church must constantly promote dialogue.

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A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

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The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

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We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

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The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

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Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.

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In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

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In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

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However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

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