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BY LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry WestenVATICAN, March 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a meeting today with representatives of the Vatican to international organizations, Pope Benedict XVI stressed that respect for the truth is the bases of justice.“Relations between States and within States are just in so far as they respect the truth,” he said. “When, however, the truth is offended, peace is threatened and rule of law is compromised, then, as a logical consequence, injustices arise.”Representatives from the Vatican have been involved in the most difficult struggles at the United Nations where they are a guard against attacks on the family, and on the unborn. The Pope mentioned those struggles specifically in his address to the Vatican representatives, stressing that “today’s gravest injustice” is the suppression of nascent life.“These injustices can adopt many faces,” said Benedict XVI. “For example, the face of disinterest or disorder, which can even go so far as to damage the structure of that founding cell of society that is the family; or perhaps the face of arrogance that can lead to abuse, silencing those without a voice or without the strength to make themselves heard, as happens in the case of today’s gravest injustice, that which suppresses nascent human life.”The Pope concluded by telling the Holy See representatives that through “difficulties and misunderstandings” they “participate authoritatively in the prophetic responsibility of the Church, which intends to continue to raise her voice in defense of mankind, even when policies of States and the majority of public opinion moves in the opposite direction. Truth, indeed, draws strength from itself and not from the amount of consent it arouses.”(with files from the Vatican Information Service)See the full address (in Italian):http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/march/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060318_intern-organizations_it.html http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-benedict-xvi-calls-abortion-todays-gravest-injustice/

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