Pope demands 鈥榣egitimate redistribution鈥 of wealth
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POPE Francis told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday that the world body must do more to help the poor and should encourage the “legitimate redistribution” of wealth.
Francis, who since his election last year has often called for significant changes to economic systems, said this in an address to Ban and heads of many UN agencies meeting in Rome.
“In the case of global political and economic organization, much more needs to be achieved, since an important part of humanity does not share in the benefits of progress and is in fact relegated to the status of second-class citizens,” Francis said.
Francis, an Argentine, is the first non-European pope in 1,300 years and the first-ever Latin American pontiff. He has used his meetings with world leaders, including US President Barack Obama in March, to champion the cause of the world’s have-nots.
He told the UN officials that while there had been a welcome drop in extreme poverty and improvements in education “the world’s peoples deserve and expect even greater results.”
A contribution to equitable development could be made “both by international activity aimed at the integral human development of all the world’s peoples and by the legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the State ... ,” he said.
An awareness of everyone’s human dignity should encourage everyone “to share with complete freedom the goods which God’s providence has placed in our hands,” he said.
The pope, who was known as the “slum bishop” in his native Buenos Aires because of his frequent visits to shantytowns, has said often since his election that he wants the Catholic Church to be closer to the poor.
He said the UN’s future sustainable development goals must be formulated to have “a real impact on the structural causes of poverty and hunger”.
In the past 14 months since his election, Francis has attacked strongly the global economic system, saying in one speech last September that it could no longer be based on “a god called money.”
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