Is a values and a universal duty founded on a rational and moral order of society that has its roots in God himself, "The first source of being, the essential truth, and the supreme good"
Is not merely the absence of war, nor cannot be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Rather it is founded on a correct understanding of the human person and requires the establishment of an order based on justice and charity
Is the fruit of justice understood in the broad sense as respect for the total dimension of the human person
Is threatened when man is not given all that is due to him as a human person, when his dignity is not respected, and when civil life is not directed to common good
Is also the fruit of love. True and lasting peace is more a matter of love, than of justice because the function of justice is merely to do away with obstacle to peace the injury done or the damage caused
Itself however is an act, and results only from love
Is built up day after day in the pursuit of an order willed by God, and can flourish only when all recognized that everyone is responsible for promoting it