LETTER OF JOHN PAUL II
TO ALL THE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT
OF THE WORLD AND DECALOGUE OF ASSISI FOR PEACE

To Their Excellencies Heads of State or Government

A month ago, the Day of Prayer for Peace in the world took place in Assisi. Today my thoughts turn spontaneously to those responsible for the social and political life of the countries that were represented there by the religious authorities of many nations.

AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF JOHN PAUL II 
TO BISHOP LICINIO RANGEL AND THE SONS OF THE 
UNION OF ST JOHN MARY VIANNEY OF CAMPOS, BRAZIL

To my Venerable Brother Licinio Rangel 
and the beloved Sons of the Union of St John Mary Vianney of Campos, Brazil

The unity of the Church is a gift that comes from the Lord, Shepherd and Head of the Mystical Body, but that also requires the certain response of each of the members, who heed the Redeemer's pressing prayer:  "that they may all be one; even as you, Father in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that you have sent me" (Jn 17,21).

LETTER OF JOHN PAUL II 
TO CARDINAL WALTER KASPER

To My Dear Brother
CARDINAL WALTER KASPER 
President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

I have learned that the Ecumenical Patriarch, His Holiness Bartholomew I, has taken the initiative of convoking an interreligous meeting in Brussels on 19 and 20 December 2001, on the theme:  The Peace of God in the World. This initiative, which also benefits from the support of Prof. Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, is intended as an encouragement to peaceful coexistence and collaboration among the great monotheistic religions in Europe.

LETTER OF JOHN PAUL II 
TO THE CARDINAL VICAR OF THE DIOCESE OF ROME, 
CARDINAL CAMILLO RUINI

Venerable Brother!

On Sunday, 16 December, God willing, I will visit the Roman parish of St María Josefa of the Heart of Jesus. With this visit I will have visited 300 parishes since I began this spiritual pastoral pilgrimage in 1978 with the visit to the parish of St Francis Xavier in the Garbatella area.

LETTER OF JOHN PAUL II
TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATIONS

To Ambassador Brunson McKinley
Director General of The International Organization for Migrations

On the occasion of the Eighty-second Session of the Council of the International Organization for Migrations, which this year marks its Fiftieth Anniversary, I express to you and your colleagues my good wishes and my deep sense of appreciation for the service rendered by the Organization to migrants throughout the world during these fifty years.

LETTER OF CONDOLENCE OF JOHN PAUL II 
TO CARDINAL THEODORE E. McCARRICK, 
ARCHBISHOP OF WASHINGTON

Dear Cardinal McCarrick,

I join my prayers to those of all assembled in the National Shrine for the Mass of suffrage celebrated for those who lost their lives in last Tuesdays terrorist attack on the Pentagon. I am confident that in this time of trial all Americans will find their religious faith a source of renewed hope and the impetus for an ever more determined resolve to reject the ways of hatred and violence.

Schreiben von Johannes Paul II.  
an die Kongregation der 
Töchter der göttlichen Liebe 
zum 24. Generalkapitel

An die ehrwürdige Mutter Nicolina Hendges, 
Generaloberin der Töchter der göttlichen Liebe

Ehrwürdige Schwestern!

1. »Die Gnade unseres Herrn Jesus Christus, die Liebe Gottes des Vaters und die Gemeinschaft des Heiligen Geistes sei it euch allen!« (2 Kor 13,13). Die Worte, die der Völkerapostel Paulus einst an die Gemeinde von Korinth gerichtet hat, mache ich mir gern zu eigen, um euch, liebe Töchter der göttlichen Liebe, von Herzen zu grüßen, die ihr zum 24. Generalkapitel in Grottaferrata versammelt seid. Ich drücke meine Verbundenheit besonders der ehrwürdigen Mutter Generaloberin Nicolina Hendges gegenüber aus und bitte sie, meine Segenswünsche an alle Mitglieder der Kongregation zu übermitteln.

MESSAGE OF JOHN PAUL II 
TO THE FRANCISCAN HOSPITALLER SISTERS 
OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Reverend Sister Maria Isilda De Freitas
Superior General of the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, Bl. Pope Pius IX granted this congregation pontifical approval, through the rescript "Sanctissimus Dominus" of 27 March 1876. The occasion of the current anniversary offers me the chance to express to you my sincere appreciation for the wonderful evangelical path opened by the Religious Family of Sr Maria Clara do Menino Jesus throughout these years with its manifold works of love. It did not disappoint the trust placed in it by my venerable predecessor!

LETTER OF JOHN PAUL II
TO THE SUPERIOR GENERAL
OF THE SOCIETY OF MARY

To the Very Reverend David Joseph Fleming
Superior General of the Society of Mary

“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Cor 1:2). In the love of the Most Holy Trinity and with the words of the Apostle I greet you and the members of the Marianist Family gathered in Rome from 8-29 July 2001 for your Thirty-second General Chapter, which has as its theme “Recreating with a new thrust the missionary project of our Founder”. As you plan for a future faithful to God’s will and to your own foundational charism, I invoke upon you a fresh outpouring of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and I assure you of a remembrance in my prayers, “thankful for your partnership in the Gospel” (Phil 1:5).