12/07/2013, 00.00
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Pope: respect for human dignity against the "culture of waste"

Society of efficiency at all costs hides a practical atheism. The weakest and most fragile are real victims of this culture. In the social doctrine "there is the defense of religious freedom, of life in all its phases, the right to work and to decent work , the family, education ... " .

Vatican City ( AsiaNews ) - In the Church's social doctrine "there is a very significant fruit of the long journey of the People of God in modern and contemporary history : there is the defense of religious freedom, of life in all its phases, the right to work and to decent work , the family, education ... " .

There is, in short, "an integral vision of the human" as opposed to the "culture of waste", a society of efficiency at all costs, which tends to violate human dignity, " irrepressible, non-disposable for any power or ideology. "

This was Pope Francis' message this morning to a delegation from the Dignitatis humanae Institute led by Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino . "Unfortunately - he observed - in our time, so full of so many hopes and achievements , there are powers and forces that end up producing a culture of waste , and this tends to become the common mentality . The weakest and most fragile are real victims of this culture - the unborn, the poor , the elderly, the sick, severely disabled ... - who are likely to be " discarded ", expelled by a system that must be efficient at all costs . This fake model of man and society implements a practical atheism by denying the fact of the Word of God that says: ' Let us make man in our image, after our likeness ' ( cfrGen 1:26) . "

"Instead , if we let ourselves be questioned by this Word , if we allow it appeal to our personal and social awareness, if we let it question our ways of thinking and acting, policies , priorities and choices , then things may change. The force of this word sets limits to anyone who wants to become hegemonic, abusing the rights and dignity of others. At the same time , it gives hope and comfort to those who can not defend themselves , who have no intellectual and practical means to affirm the value of their suffering , their rights, their lives. "

 

 

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