But before he did that, His Holiness called out those leaders of countries where life is so miserable, so many have a need to escape:
Benedict XVI wrote in 2012: «In the current social and political context, however, even before the right to migrate, there is need to reaffirm the right not to emigrate, that is, to remain in one’s homeland; as John Paul II stated: “It is a basic human right to live in one’s own country. However this rights become effective only if the factors that urge people to emigrate are constantly kept under control”. Today in fact we can see that many migrations are the result of economic instability, the lack of essential goods, natural disasters, wars and social unrest. Instead of a pilgrimage filled with trust, faith and hope, migration then becomes an ordeal undertaken for the sake of survival, where men and women appear more as victims than as agents responsible for the decision to migrate. As a result, while some migrants attain a satisfactory social status and a dignified level of life through proper integration into their new social setting, many others are living at the margins, frequently exploited and deprived of their fundamental rights, or engaged in forms of behaviour harmful to their host society. The process of integration entails rights and duties, attention and concern for the dignified existence of migrants; it also calls for attention on the part of migrants to the values offered by the society to which they now belong»
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Pope Benedict was a shining light, suffering under the Hitler regime and attempting to bring the liturgical wars to an end. A tragic day for the Church when he resigned
Father McDonald, thank you for this thread. I had deleted accidentally the other day in a different thread a comment related to the right not to migrate. Our holy Popes have noted that just social, economic, and environmental conditions would eliminate desperate conditions that often fuel migration.
For example, in line with his immediate predecessors,, Pope Francis declared via his Encyclical Fratelli Tutti, #129:
"Ideally, unnecessary migration ought to be avoided; this entails creating in countries of origin the conditions needed for a dignified life and integral development."
To create said conditions, Pope Benedict XVI, via his Encyclical Caritas In Veritate, #67, declared:
"In the face of the unrelenting growth of global interdependence, there is a strongly felt need...for a reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth.
"This seems necessary in order to arrive at a political, juridical and economic order which can increase and give direction to international cooperation for the development of all peoples in solidarity.
"To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago.
"Such an authority would...seek to establish the common good, and to make a commitment to securing authentic integral human development inspired by the values of charity in truth.
"They also require the construction of a social order that at last conforms to the moral order, to the interconnection between moral and social spheres, and to the link between politics and the economic and civil spheres, as envisaged by the Charter of the United Nations."
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Pope Benedict XVI, in line with additional holy Popes, had spoken the truth. We need, as could be achieved via the United Nations Organization, for the benefit of people everywhere, disarmament, economic regulation, food regulation, environmental regulation, etc.
As Pope Benedict XVI declared, it is via a world authority that the world would eliminate desperate conditions that fuel migration.
It is via such a worldwide organization that we could live in peace, as Pope Benedict XVI had noted.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas,
You do realize that Holt, Holy Pope Benedict was saying the illegal immigrant’s native countries need to fix conditions there so they need not migrate
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