The pope has summoned economists to a global pact to change the economy

Vatican City (AICA):In a letter published today, Saturday, May 11, by the press office of the Holy See, Pope Francis invited economists and entrepreneurs from around the world to participate in a meeting to be held from 26 to 28 May. March 2020. Ass, and in which the Global Compact is concluded to promote an economy that ensures respect for the environment, respect for life, care of the family, social equality, dignity of workers and the rights of future generations.

In a letter published today, Saturday, May 11, by the press office of the Holy See, Pope Francis invited economists and entrepreneurs from around the world to participate in a meeting to be held from 26 to 28 May. March 2020. Ass, and in which the Global Compact is concluded to promote an economy that ensures respect for the environment, respect for life, care of the family, social equality, dignity of workers and the rights of future generations.

In his letter, the pontiff encourages the participants in the meeting on economics of Francisco to promote together, through a common pact, a process of global change that sees in the communion of intentions not only those who have the gift of faith, to all men of good will, beyond differences of belief and nationality, united by an ideal of fraternity, particularly attentive to the poor and excluded.

I invite each of you to be the protagonist of this pact, baduming an individual and collective commitment to cultivate together the dream of a new humanism that meets the expectations of man and the plan of God .

In his message, the pontiff also expressed the wish that this meeting be an event that allows to meet those who are formed and begin to study and practice a different economy, which allows to live and not to kill, which includes and n & ## It excludes, humanizes and does not dehumanize, cares for creation and does not depreciate it.

We must revive the economy! And which city is more appropriate for that than the donkey, which for centuries has been the symbol and the message of a humanism of fraternity?

He explained that Assistan was stripped of all worldliness to choose God as a polar star of his life, making himself poor with the poor universal brother. From his poverty choice has also emerged a vision of the economy that remains current. This vision can give hope to our future, with benefits not only for the poor, but for the whole of humankind. This is also necessary for the fate of the entire planet, our common home.

I remember that in the encyclical Laudato, I emphasize that today, more than ever, everything is intimately linked and that the protection of the environment can not be separated from justice towards the poor and solving the structural problems of the global economy.

Therefore, it is necessary to correct growth patterns unable to guarantee respect for the environment, the acceptance of life, the care of the family, social equality, the dignity of workers , the rights of future generations.

Francisco de Ass is the example of the acceptance of the care of the weak and an integral ecology. The words that are addressed to him by the Crucified One in the San Damin Chapel come to mind: Francisco, repair my house which, as you see, is in ruins.

I emphasize that this house to repair concerns us all. It affects the Church, society, the heart of each of us. It further affects the environment that urgently needs a healthy economy and sustainable development that will heal its wounds and ensure a dignified future.

He also insisted that in the face of this urgency, we are all called to review our mental and moral patterns, so that they may be more in keeping with God's commandments and the requirements of the common good. But I thought to invite especially young people because, with their desire for a beautiful and happy future, they are already the prophecy of an economy concerned with the person and the environment.

Finally, the pope told the young people that they were able to listen with heart to the increasingly anguished cries of the land and its poor in search of help and responsibility, That is to say, someone who answers and does not turn their backs on them. If they listen to their hearts, they will feel bearers of a courageous culture and they will not be afraid to take risks and commit to building a new society.

As long as our economic and social system still produces a victim and that there is only one person discarded, there can be no celebration of universal brotherhood, concluded the pontiff. +