Just before Christmas, I saw on television that a baby girl who had been born very prematurely was being returned to her parents following weeks of intensive care in a premature babies unit—a wonderful proclamation of love of life, no matter how fragile.At the other end of the scale, our 83-year-old Pope John Paul II again proclaimed his Christmas message and celebrated the world day of peace on 1 January with the words:"men and women tempted to turn to the unacceptable means of terrorism and thus compromise at its root the very cause for which you are fighting … at the beginning of the New Year 2004, peace remains possible.