Pope Francis received Zaffaroni and criticized social inequality

Pope Francis closed a Pan American Judicial Summit at the Vatican, which was attended by, among others, the former judge of the Supreme CourtRaúl Zaffaronijudge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; the president of the Superior Court of Justice of the city of Buenos AiresInés Weinberg de Roca and Judge Elena Liberatore.

The Pan American Summit of Judges on Social Rights and Franciscan Doctrine was held in the Vatican on June 3-4, with the badistance of magistrates from all over the Americas, a real space for discussion about poverty in America and the violation social rights (housing, work, food, education, health, environment, among others).

Francisco demanded the creation of a "new atmosphere", "a culture marked by a shared and courageous leadership that paves the way for new generations, creating the conditions to overcome the dynamics of exclusion and segregation, so that inequality does not have the last word ".

The pope was concerned thatand "voices rise to try to" explain "that social rights are old, obsolete and have nothing to do with our society."

"Thus, they confirm the economic and social policies that lead our people to accept and justify inequality and indignity", he maintained.

Francisco pointed out that injustice and the lack of concrete opportunities "are also a way to generate silent violence, but always violence". "Thousands of our neighbors and brothers, including children, are denied their rights and are elegantly called" street people, "he said, adding" it is curious to see how much euphemisms abound in The World of Injustice: Constitutional guarantees and international treaties do not have universal value as a practice, and this social injustice is naturalized and therefore invisible. "

The Pope stressed that a political and social system "must ensure that democracy is not only symbolic, but can be translated into concrete actions safeguarding the dignity of all its inhabitants, in accordance with the logic of the common good ". Now it is necessary to "think in new ways so that equality before the law does not degenerate into a propensity for injustice", he said, adding that "social rights can not not only being nominal, but also a lighthouse or the institutions of a society have consequences on the environment and the quality of human life ".

The pope recommended to the judges not to be dominated by inertia in the face of the conflict or "a sterile attitude of the one who looks, denies or moves forward as if nothing had happened and is washing his hands to be able to to continue your life ".