AAS 74 - Vaticano

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único que puede resolver las contradicciones inherentes a la fenomeno­
logía social de la desunión, de las discordias, de injusticia y del con­
flicto armado.
A vuestros colaboradores y fieles llegue, por medio vuestro, una lla­
mada a la esperanza, que los sostenga en las difíciles circunstancias
actuales y les ayude en el cumplimiento de los propios deberes.
Sobre vosotros, Venerables Hermanos, y sobre los amadísimos hijos
de la Nación entera imploro de Cristo Salvador, (( nuestra paz y recon­
ciliación », abundantes gracias divinas en prenda de las cuales imparto de
corazón una especial Bendición Apostólica.
Vaticano, 6 de Agosto de 1982.
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Ad Exc.mum Virum Petrum Ipu Peipul, Papuae Novae Guineae apud
Sanctam Sedem constitutum Legatum, demandati muneris testes Litteras
Summo Pontifici tradentem.*
Mr Ambassador,
It is with much pleasure that I receive Your Excellency as your
country's first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the
Holy See. At the centre of the Catholic Church there is now a présence
of Papua New Guinea in your person, and I am confident that this will
strengthen further the happy relations to which you referred and which
have been steadily developing in the years since your nation achieved
its independence.
My personal relationship with Papua New Guinea began before
I was chosen for the See of Rome and thus given a special responsi­
bility with regard to the Church in every part of the world. As Arch-
bishop of Cracow I had the pleasure of visiting your country, meeting
its people and getting to know at first hand some of its characteristics,
its needs and its points of strength. I learnt to esteem the people of
* Die 1 m. Iulii a. 1982.