Pope Francis: "The right to private property is not untouchable"

It is necessary to build a "new social justice starting from the assumption that the Christian tradition has never recognized the right to private property as absolute and untouchable" and has always instead emphasized "its social function".

These are the words of Pope Francis, spoken during a videoconference with the judges of America and Africa who deal with social rights.

"The right of property is a secondary natural right derived from the right that everyone has, born from the universal destiny of created goods", explains the Pontiff. Therefore, "there is no social justice that can be founded on inequality, which implies the concentration of wealth".

For the Pope "we are used to passing, ignoring situations until they affect us directly. Unconditional commitment instead takes on the pain of the other without slipping into a culture of indifference".

In his reflection, Bergoglio underlined that it is necessary "to be a people, without pretending to be an enlightened elite, but a people, which is constant and tireless in the work of including and integrating".

Again, he continued, "in the Gospel, what God asks of us is to be God's people, not God's elite. Because those who follow the path of God's elite end up with the well-known elite clericalism that works for the people, but nothing with the people, without feeling like a people ".

The Pope then urged to pursue the values of solidarity and equity. "Solidarity in the fight against the structural causes of poverty, inequality, lack of work, land and housing. In short, fighting against those who deny social and trade union rights. Fighting against that culture that leads to the use of others, to enslave them. others, and ends up taking away the dignity of others ", his warning.

(Unioneonline / lf)

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