Promote
human person, social stability, Pope tells Italian judiciary council
(Vatican
Radio) Pope Francis met with the Italian Superior Council of the Judiciary at
the Vatican on Saturday. The Pope told council members it is important for
all public authorities to use their office to promote the human person and to
give stability and solidity to society.
Globalization
brings with it confusion and disorientation and can introduce concepts, norms
and customs that are foreign to the social fabric, said Pope Francis.
In
a context of such “deep shocks” to a culture’s roots, the Pope said it is
important for public authorities to use their office to “make the foundations
for human coexistence” more “stable” and “solid” through “the recuperation of
fundamental values.”
“To
these values, Christianity has offered the most appropriate true foundation:
the love of God, which is inseparable from love of others,” he said.
These
fundamental values can serve as an “effective dam” against the increase in crime
and “the scourge of corruption,” which also affect developed democracies, he
said.
Education
is also important in this process as a preventive strategy, offering new
generations “an anthropology, that is not relativist, and a model of life that
are able to meet the high and deep inspirations of the human soul,” he said.
“To
this end,” he continued, “institutions are required to recover a long-term
strategy, geared to the promotion of the human person and to peaceful
co-existence.”
People
who have a judicial function contribute to building this, he said.
Speaking
on the practical aspect of judicial functions, the Pope said judges are called
to intervene when a rule has been violated. Their reaffirmation of that rule in
the process, while applied to a single individual, is of interest and impact to
the entire community, which in turn reaffirms the value of that rule and
identifies with it.
On
human rights, the Pope said they are fundamental in “the recognition of the
essential dignity of humankind.” However, he warned, this recognition
“should be done without abusing that category,” wanting the judiciary to accept
“practices and behaviours that, rather than promoting and guaranteeing human
dignity, in reality threaten or event violate it.”
“Justice
is not done in the abstract,” he said, “but always considering the person in
his or her true value, as beings created in the image of God and called
to realize, here on earth, his likeness.”
The
Pope also remembered a former vice-president of the council, Vittorio Bachelet,
who was killed 35 years ago.
“May
his witness as a man, a Christian and a jurist continue to animate your
commitment to the service of justice and to the common good,” he said.
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