If you want to serve the common good and build a better future, you’ll never do it by hiding your faith in the closet. You’ll never do it by being Catholic in private and something else in public. History is made by people with convictions, and the courage and passion to live those convictions. The path to interfaith peace and religious understanding demands that we live our faith more deeply and authentically, not less.
The more truly we love the Church and live our Catholic faith with joy, charity, justice, mercy—and the courage to demand that other people, in other religious traditions, should do the same—then the more the God of love will become present in our midst. And he alone is the real path to peace.
