“[A] ‘spirituality of communion’ not only helps bring unity among Christians but also opens up dialogue with people of other religions. This dialogue is one of the most demanding and urgent challenges we face at the dawn of the third millennium…
“Then there is the dialogue with those who have non-religious convictions, based on a common esteem for true values such as peace, freedom, life, human rights, ecology, and so forth.
“And there is the dialogue between peoples. And unity between the human person and nature.
“A ‘spirituality of communion,’ then, [is] unity as the keynote that can sum it all up, which is certainly not uniformity. If we put unity into practice we will see the world change direction, like a film turning back to the beginning. There are so many traumatic divisions, so many crises, so much disintegration on our planet, which remain immersed in indifference, in secularization and materialism. With this new life we can turn back, while still going forward. Humanity will rediscover the unity God had in mind when he created it.”
