Sergio rubin
06/19/2021 1:36 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 06/19/2021 1:39 PM
Given the criticism that the Pope received this week, the leadership of the Episcopate in the country desisted from going out to clarify that
Francis is in no way against private property
, although he considers it "a secondary right", in line with the traditional position of the church.
"
We cannot be explaining everything he says
, especially because the rift that divides politics leads to irreducible positions that determine that
any attempt at clarification is ineffective,
" said a spokesman.
However, it was recognized how
unfortunate
this time was the fact that the Pope's concepts
have coincided with a questioning by the President
of the Nation to the right to inheritance in the case of unproductive lands and with a controversial ordinance of the Deliberative Council of Avellaneda , which opens the way for the confiscation of land with tax arrears.
"But from there to think that Francisco said what he said to support those positions
is nonsense,
" said the source.
“
We must stop being so self-referential
, believing that everything Francisco says or does is related to Argentina and accept once and for all that he is
no longer the archbishop of Buenos Aires
, but that he is the Pope and his territory is the world. ”, Said this week the head of the chair of Social Doctrine at the UCA, Professor Pablo Blanco.
"Or perhaps every time you pronounce concepts of the Social Doctrine of the church
should you take into account episodes from your country
?"
Strictly speaking, Francisco's concept was part of a message to the International Labor Conference that is currently in session in Geneva. And that he had already expressed in his social encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, which he published last year. in which it
also vindicates the right to property
"in the positive sense: I take care of and cultivate something that I own, so that it can be
a contribution to the good of all
", and recognizes the role of entrepreneurs in generating wealth.
Professor Blanco explained to Clarín that the Church's position on private property was established 130 years ago by Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum Norarum (1891) with which the Social Doctrine began to develop and that it was also criticized. He pointed out that other popes followed this line, such as John Paul II, who in his encyclical Solicitudo Rei Socialis (1987) says that
on all private property "a social mortgage is levied."
"That the right of property
is secondary
means in the first place that it is a right subordinate to a higher purpose that is the enjoyment of goods and opportunities by all men, which is recognized by the principle of the universal destination of goods ”Says Blanco. But he clarifies that "
this does not mean that the right to property should be abolished
or imply advocating for its collectivization."
It also brings up the Catechism of the Church, which says in its latest version (1992) that “the right to private property, acquired or received in a fair way
, does not cancel the original donation of the earth to the whole of humanity. .
The universal destination of goods continues to be paramount, although the promotion of the common good requires
respect for private property
, its right and its exercise ”.
The Archbishop of La Plata, Víctor Manuel Fernández, very close to the Pope, has just exemplified in a column in
Infobae
the
“social function” that the Church grants to private property
and that leads it to be considered as a secondary right: “It is "It is evident," he wrote, "that someone, no matter how much they have a property deed, cannot use it to accumulate toxic waste because they must take care of the planet that belongs to everyone".
Monsignor Fernández added other examples: "No one maintains that they can increase and accumulate their assets without paying taxes and without contributing to the common good, because in addition to being an owner, they are a citizen," he says.
"
Nor does it mean that you can shoot anyone who enters
without permission because the human right to life is superior," he says.
And he ends up wondering:
"why all the fuss about something obvious?"
.
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