Vatican Secretary of State outlines goals of Holy See's diplomacy
March 11, 2015
The goal of Vatican diplomacy is “to sustain an idea of peace as the fruit of just relations, of respect for international law, and of protection of fundamental human rights, beginning with those of the least among us, the most vulnerable.” That was the message of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, in a March 11 address.
Speaking at the Pontifical Gregorian University, in an interdisciplinary seminar on the pursuit of peace, Cardinal Parolin said that the said that Vatican diplomacy “acts to facilitate the coexistence and cohabitation of various nations, to promote fraternity between peoples, where the term fraternity is a synonym for effective collaboration, true cooperation, harmonious and orderly, of a solidarity structured in favor of the common good and that of individuals.”
The Holy See, the cardinal remarked, engages in diplomatic work not to pursue its own interests, but as a religious mission, undertaken in the cause of peace.
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