How to Live
the ethic — what it asks of a life
Live with the others.
Maronite doctrine on coexistence is not abstract: Lebanon's political system reserves the presidency for a Maronite, the premiership for a Sunni and the speakership for a Shia, and the patriarchate has defended that arrangement, criticised it, and been held responsible for it. John Paul II's line that Lebanon is more than a country, it is a message, is quoted by Lebanese of every confession and is the nearest thing the church has to a political creed.
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