Pope: integrate peoples, development models, body and soul
Marking 50 years of Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio affirming the principle of integral human development, summarized in the "development of every person and all of the person", integration remains the key to development.
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - Marking 50 years of Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio affirming the principle of integral human development, summarized in the "development of every person and all of the person", integration remains the key to development: integrate the people, the personal and communal dimensions, social development models, body and soul, pointed out Pope Francis as he received the participants at a conference sponsored by the Dicastery for Integral Human Development marking the 50th anniversary of "Populorum Progressio", which ends today.
Francis said: “To integrate the different peoples of the earth. The duty of solidarity requires us to seek ways to fair sharing, because there is the dramatic inequality between those who have too much and those who have nothing, those who discard and those who are discarded. Only the path of integration between peoples can lead humanity to a future of peace and hope. "
"It is to offer viable models of social integration. Everyone has a contribution to make to society, everyone has a feature that can be used to live together, no one is excluded from making something for the good of all. This is both a right and a duty. It is the principle of subsidiarity to ensure that everyone’s needs are considered, both as individuals and as groups, if we want to create a human society open to all."
“It is also integrated in the development of all those elements that really make it such. The different systems: the economy, finance, labor, culture, family life, religion are, each in its own way, an essential moment of this growth. None of them can be absolute and none of them can be excluded from an integral human development, which takes into account that human life is like an orchestra that sounds good if the different instruments are in harmony and follow a score shared by all".
"It is to integrate individual and community dimensions. It is true that we are children of a culture, at least in the Western world, which has exalted the individual until it is like an island, as if one can be happy alone. On the other hand, there are ideological views and political powers that have crushed the person, have standardized and deprived the person of that freedom without which we cannot feel human. Economic powers are also interested in this massification who want to take advantage of globalization, instead of encouraging greater sharing among men, simply to impose a global market of which they themselves have set the rules and reap the profits. The self and the community are not competing with each other, but can mature only in the presence of authentic relationships and the community is generated when all of its components are thus disposed. This applies even more to the family, which is the first cell of society and where we learn to live together. "
"It is finally integrate the body and soul. Already Paul VI wrote that the development is not reduced to a mere economic growth (cf. n. 14); development does not consist in having more and more goods, for material well-being alone. Integrating body and soul also means that no development work can really achieve its purpose if it does not respect the place where God is present to us and speaks to our hearts. God has made himself fully known in Jesus Christ: in him, God and man are not divided and separated from each other. "
"God became man to make human life, both personal and social, a concrete path to salvation. So the manifestation of God in Christ - including his acts of healing, liberation, and reconciliation that we are called to propose to the many injured by the roadside - shows the way and the mode of service that the Church intends to offer to the world: in His light, one can understand what "integral" development means, which is not wrong either to God or to man, because it takes all the consistency of both. In this sense, the very concept of person, born and matured in Christianity, helps to pursue a fully human development. So that person means relationships, not individualism, inclusion and not exclusion, unique and inviolable dignity and not exploitation, freedom and not coercion. "
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