The world needs leaders who can "put into practice a more just way for all of us to live in this world as sharers in a common destiny," Pope Francis said.
"There is no need, on the other hand, for hurling slogans that often remain empty, or for antagonism between parties jockeying for the front position," the Pope said in a letter to the international conference of "Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church."
The group is a network of Catholic theologians and ethicists. According to the National Catholic Reporter, some 500 members from 80 countries were in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, for a meeting July 26-29 on the theme, "A Critical Time for Bridge-Building: Catholic Theological Ethics Today."
