Política y migraciones

Faced with the exclusive and inhuman immigration policies of President Trump, Pope Francis opposes the culture of the walls and encourages the culture of the meeting. When addressing the growing phenomenon of migrations and mentioning the torn lives that flee from misery, wars, persecutions, natural disasters; Defend the right to seek a better life in another place and to be respected, welcomed, protected, promoted and integrated. He even points out some “indispensable responses” especially for those who flee from “serious humanitarian crises”: increase and simplify the concession of visas; open humanitarian corridors; guarantee housing, security and essential services; offer jobs and training opportunities; Promote family reunification; protect minors; guarantee religious freedom and promote social inclusion. And above all it emphasizes with a great common sense and intelligence that to avoid not necessary migrations, we must create in the countries of origin concrete possibilities of security and dignified life so that they do not abandon the country. The truly urgent and necessary is to implement economic, political and social measures that respect the Constitution and human rights so that people do not have to abandon their country.
To do this possible, we must assume politics as one of the most precious forms of charity. Francisco affirms that the best policy, far from populisms, is what guarantees all a decent and well -paid job because the best help for a poor is not to give money, which is a temporary remedy, but to allow him to live a decent life for means of your work. The true strategy to fight poverty aims to promote the poor jointly. The Pope advocates a policy that says no to corruption, to inefficiency, to the misuse of power, to lack of respect for laws. A policy focused on human dignity. Likewise, it considers that it is also the task of politics to find a solution to everything that attains against fundamental human rights, such as social exclusion; traffic of organs, weapons and drugs; sexual exploitation; terrorism and organized crime. And it makes an urgent call to eliminate hunger, which, in his words, is “criminal” because food is “an inalienable right.”

Unfortunately, there are less and less people who take the Pope’s words seriously. Against those who believe that the Church must return to the sacristies and limit itself to its level of promoting cult and religious practices, Francisco makes it clear that the Church cannot give up the political dimension of existence, since attention to the common good And the concern for integral human development concerns humanity and everything that is human concerns the Church, according to the principles of the Gospel.

Following Jesus is to accompany him in his mission of establishing here the kingdom, that is, a fair and fraternal society, which privileges above all the most vulnerable and excluded, not because they are better, but because they are more needy and therefore they have a place privileged in the maternal heart of God. The option for the poor must translate into commitment to eradicate poverty and all forms of exclusion and domination. A faith without works, without commitment to work for justice, coexistence and peace, is a dead faith.

Pope Francis concludes his beautiful encyclical “Laudato Si”, “Praise you” with these words: