In a message sent to judges in Argentina,
Pope Francis
today considered that
the role of the State
in "redistribution and social justice" is
"more important than ever
," while warning about the
"dehumanizing and violent models"
and maintaining that, in public positions, "the legitimacy of origin is not enough."
This was stated in a video message that he sent for the inauguration of the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Pan American Committee of Judges for Social Rights and the Franciscan Doctrine (Copaju), which was headed this morning by Buenos Aires magistrate Andrés Gallardo.
"
Social rights are not free
. The wealth to sustain them is available, but it requires appropriate, rational and equitable political decisions. The State, today more important than ever, is called to exercise that central role of redistribution and social justice," he said. the Argentine pontiff in his message.
"
The Market God and the Profit Goddess are false deities
that lead us to the dehumanization and destruction of the planet. History has shown this on many and very sad occasions," the Pope asserted.
Copaju was created by Gallardo in the Vatican together with Pope Francis in June 2019 and last year achieved the Vatican status of "Private Association of the Faithful."
"Brothers, all those who exercise public power have to keep in mind that the legitimacy of origin is not enough.
The exercise must also be legitimate
," Francisco later added in the video that was projected this morning at the headquarters at 1189 Ingeniero Huergo Avenue. of the City of Buenos Aires.
"What justification can power have if it moves away from the construction of just and dignified societies? Can I be a good magistrate looking to the side in the face of the suffering of others? Please, every day in front of the mirror ask yourself about yourself and ask yourself for the others," Jorge Bergoglio asked himself in that direction.
For the Pope, "the mission of judicial operators: lawyers, judges, prosecutors, defenders is transcendent and crucial" so "the Judiciary is the last resource available in the State to remedy violations of rights and preserve institutional balance And social".
"We live in times of
intense injustice
: a few rich people increasingly more powerful and millions of poor people denied and discarded. There is no future, there is no development, there is no justice or democracy in a world where millions of children eat daily only the waste of those who if they consume," he lamented in that context.
Today's event also served to inaugurate the Argentine sub-headquarters of the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Institute for research and promotion of Social Rights, created by the Pope in 2023 with "academic, teaching and training purposes on the subject of Social Rights, migration and colonialism" and which is chaired by former Supreme Court judge Eugenio Zaffaroni, who was present at today's event.
"I greet Copaju, I greet the Lascasciano Institute, I greet all of you. I bless your new home, I wish you success in your activities. I ask you for firmness and determination in the face of dehumanizing and violent models. Peace is a daily construction and you are peace workers," Francisco said goodbye to them.
Since 2023, Copaju is a private association of faithful of an international nature in accordance with canons 298-311 and 321-329, established as a private legal entity within the canonical order, according to canon 322, § 1.
In his chirograph, a writing with the force of a decree, the Pope maintained that "the organization of magistrates Pan-American Committee of Judges for Social Rights and the Franciscan Doctrine had incipient local origins in the City of Buenos Aires and then stood out in the "Argentine Republic since 2017, holding the first regional meeting in June 2018 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires."
With information from Télam
D.D.