Religious Freedom, Right to Education and all other Civil Rights (Spiritual Freedom)
Measure: Effective, practical and immediate access to essential material and spiritual goods.
Housing, Employment, Food, Drinking water, spiritual freedom and education (pillars of integral human development) [[adjectives key here: “adequate” food, decently “remunerated employment”
Foundation: Right to life and existence of human nature itself.
Primary cell of any social development
For girls excluded in certain places; respecting and reinforcing primary right of the family to educate its children, and of churches, and social groups to support this and reclaim the environment (sorry, missed some things in there)
We are dealing with real men and women.
The level of this speech is quite a bit higher than the more rhetorical (and brilliant in a different way) performance in Congress.
…to assuage our conscience.”
Wow, that’s a phrase. Essentially he means we must put our money where our mouth is.
Requires a constant will, effective, practical, constant with concrete steps. End social and economic exclusion with results of marketing of human organs and tissues, trafficking, slave labor, prostitution, terrorism, international organized crime.
Pope’s own responsibility in this regard: speak out with those seeking solutions; commitments are not enough!
Economic and Social exclusion is a denial of human fraternity and a grave offense against human rights and the environment; the poorest are those who suffer most from this: cast out from society; forced to live from what is discarded; suffer from the abuse of the environment.
“In all religions the environment is a fundamental good”
We are part of the environment, a unique part, but also a part of it (shaped by physical, chemical and biological elements); our survival depends upon a healthy environment;
Every creature has an intrinsic value; existence, life, beauty and interdependence with other creatures. Universe the fruit of a loving decision by a Creator (all monotheistic religions). Man not authorized to abuse or destroy creation.