On Saturday (08/10/22) a group of about one hundred and ninety people who took part in the meeting of the “Chentesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation” was received in the Vatican.
Joey Kariveli, Vatican City
The Pope praises the contribution of the “Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation” for the dissemination and correct understanding of the Church’s social teaching.
Pope Francis said this when addressing a group of one hundred and eighty people who participated in the foundation conference in the Vatican on Saturday (10/08/22), evaluating the activities of this foundation.
The Pope recalled that the Foundation “reads the social teaching of the Church from within” of the complex economic and social world and therefore can be constantly compared to a constantly evolving reality. The Pope recalled that the conference of the “Chentesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation adopted the theme of” integral development to eradicate poverty and promote sustainable development for peace. “It is stated that it will not be development.
Pope Saint Paul VI explained that development cannot be reduced to mere economic progress and, in order to be authentic development, it must be global, that is, aiming at the improvement of each individual and of the whole person, citing the famous papal encyclical “Populorum progressio” . It all depends on how we look at reality, the Pope said, and therefore the future invites us to a new vision and he recalled that everyone, in his own grandson, is called to cultivate a different way of looking at the world, starting from people and situations. of daily life.
