Pope receives Populorum progressio conference
participants
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Tuesday received
participants attending an International Conference marking the 50th anniversary
of Blessed Paul VI social encyclical 'Populorum progressio', telling them that
only the path of integration between peoples can bring about a future of peace
and hope.
50 years ago Blessed Paul VI promulgated his social
encyclical 'Populorum progressio' on the development of peoples. In it the Pope
calls for all nations to initiate dialogue and collaboration so developing
countries no longer risk being overwhelmed by debt. It also expresses the
principle of solidarity.
To mark the milestone anniversary of this document an
International Conference has been taking place this week aimed at studying the
theological anthropological and pastoral perspectives of the encyclical and
formulate guidelines for the activity of the new Dicastery for Promoting
Integral Human Development.
And it was on this subject of Integral Human Development
that Pope Francis addressed participants who have been attending this meeting.
He asked those present what does this phrase means today and
in the near future?
The Holy Father answered that Integral Human Development
meant “to integrate the different peoples of the earth.”
The duty of solidarity, he continued, “requires us to
seek a fair sharing mode, because there is a dramatic inequality between those
who have too much and those who have nothing, including those who discard and
who are discarded. Only the path of integration between peoples can bring about
a future of peace and hope.”
Integral Human Development, the Pope went on to say, “is to
offer viable models of social integration. “Everyone has a contribution to make
to the whole of society, everyone has a feature that can be used to live
together, no one is excluded from making something for the good of all. This is
both a right and a duty”, he said
Quoting his predecessor Blessed Paul VI, the Pope said that
“development is not reduced to a mere economic growth. It does not consist in
having more and more goods…”
The development of the human person, explained the Holy
Father at the end of the day means the integration of body and soul. But
he noted, that this integration also means that “no development work can really
achieve its purpose if it does not respect the place where God is present to us
and speaks to our hearts.”
(Lydia O'Kane)
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