Rome (AP) – Pope Francis says the coronavirus epidemic has proved that the “magic principles” of market capitalism have failed and the world needs a new kind of politics that promotes dialogue and unity and rejects war at all costs. Is.
Francis on Sunday gave his vision for the post-covid world by combining the basic elements of his social teachings into a new encyclopedia with the aim of inspiring a revived spirit of the human family. “Fratelli Tuti” (Brothers) l) On the day of the festival named after him, the peace-loving St. Francis of Assisi was released.
The document is inspired by the teachings of St. Francis and the Pope’s earlier sermons on the injustices of the global economy and the destruction of his planet, and connects them to his call for greater humanitarian unity in the face of the “black clouds of the closed world.” ”
In the encyclopedia, Francis also rejected the Catholic Church’s own doctrine of war as a means of legal defense, stating that it had been widely used for centuries and was no longer systematic.
Francis wrote in the most controversial new element of the encyclopedia, “It is very difficult today to use the rational criteria explained in previous centuries to talk about the possibility of a just war.”
Francis began writing his third encyclopedia before the coronavirus struck and his dark diagnosis of the human family went beyond problems. He said the epidemic reaffirmed his belief that existing political and economic institutions should be reformed to meet the legal needs of those most affected by the coronavirus.
“Apart from the response of various countries to the crisis, their inability to work together became clear,” Francis wrote. “Anyone who thinks that the only lesson to be learned, the need to improve what we were already doing, or the need to improve existing systems and rules, is denying reality.”
He cited the massive loss of millions of jobs as a result of the virus as evidence of the need to listen to popular movements of politicians, unions and marginalized groups and formulate more social and economic policies.
“The fragility of global systems in the face of epidemics has shown that not everything is resolved by market freedom,” he wrote. “It promotes an economy that supports productive diversification and business creativity, and it is imperative to have a proactive economic policy that makes job creation possible, and not cut.”
He denounced populist politics that seeks to be demonized and isolated and calls for a “culture of encounter” that promotes dialogue, unity and sincere efforts to work for the common good.
As its development, Francis rejected the notion of full right to property for individuals, instead emphasizing the “social purpose” and the common good, which should come from sharing the earth’s resources. He reiterated his criticism of the “distorted” global economic system, saying that by enriching a few, they constantly marginalized the poor – an argument he made in the important 2015 environmental encyclopedia “Laudoto CE” (praised).
Francis also rejected the “trick-down” economic theory, which he did in his first major mission statement to the popes, the 2013 “Evangelical Gaudium” (Enjoying the Gospel), claiming that he achieves what he says.
He wrote, “Neo-liberalization simply reproduces itself by resorting to the magical principles of ‘spillover’ or ‘trickle’ – without using the name – as the only solution to social problems.” There is little appreciation for the fact that so-called ‘spillover’ inequality Does not solve what gives rise to new forms of violence that threaten the very fabric of society. “
Francis’ English-language biography, us Stan Ivreig, along with his two key predecessors, stated that the new encyclopedia was identical to the last part of the quarterly portion of Papal Sermons and could be Pontifet’s final.
“There are three doubts that these three documents … will be considered the basis of the teachings of the Francis era,” Iverig wrote in Commonwealth magazine.
Francis clarified that there is a wide circulation of text, the encyclopedia was printed in the Vatican newspaper L’Ossavazator Romono and distributed free of charge in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday to resume printed editions after a break during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Most of the new encyclopedias are repeated in Francis’s well-known sermon on the need to welcome and value Francis’s immigrants and to reject the nationalist, secluded policies of many of today’s political leaders.
Dedicating an entire chapter to the parable of the good Samaritan, he said the lesson of his charity, kindness, and searching for strangers was “the decision we must make to rebuild our wounded world.”
“Such an ancient theme is now spoken of with such urgency, as Pope Francis would fear a divorce from the point of view that we are all really responsible for all, related to all, entitled to the pursuit of what has been given for all good. “All,” said Anna Rowlands, a professor of Catholic social thought at the University of Durham in Britain, who was at the Vatican on Sunday to present the encyclopedia.
Francis has linked both the nuclear arms race and the death penalty to his earlier denial of recognition, which he said was “inappropriate” in all cases.
In particular, Francis’s call for “human brotherhood” to promote peace is taken from the 2019 joint appeal of his venerable 1000-year-old seat of Sunni Islam, the Grand Imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar. Their “human fraternity” document, with a common goal of promoting peace, establishes the relationship between Catholics and Muslims as brothers.
Given that Francis’s critics had already called the “human fraternity” document legislative, he now says that God has introduced “pluralism and diversity of different religions”, the fact that he has now compiled a Catholic-Muslim document in an encyclopedia. That fact is significant.
The Vatican encyclopedia is the most authoritative form of populism and they traditionally take their titles from the first two words of a document. In this case, “Fretelli Broken” is an excerpt from the “Instructions” guide written by St. Francis in the 13th century.
The title of the encyclopedia caused controversy in the English-speaking world, with critics noting that the direct translation of the word “fretelli” (brothers) excludes women. The Vatican insists that the plural form of the word “fretelli” is gender-inclusive.
Francis decided to sign the document at the ACC, where he traveled on Saturday, and was released on the day of the Feast of Saints, further evidence of St. Francis’s outside influence over the papacy of the Jesuit pope.
Francis is the first pope to be named after his beloved, who abandoned a rich, imperfect lifestyle in order to accept the poor life and service to the poor.
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