2023-11-25 14:18:57
Former presidential candidate Juan Grabois stated today from the Vatican that Pope Francis “is the best lawyer in the world” for “the poor and poor people,” while highlighting that the pontiff calls for political participation “by marking clear limits against “dehumanizing hegemonic proposals that deny the primacy of human dignity over economic benefits.”
«Francis talks about the poor, explaining their situation and the causes of it; “Francis speaks to the poor, looking them in the face, evangelizing and teaching, but above all listening and allowing himself to be evangelized,” said Grabois when participating in a symposium on the ten years of the exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) organized by the Dicastery for the Comprehensive Human Development Service of which he is a member.
“Francis speaks alongside the poor in a collective construction with popular movements accompanying struggles and peripheries, but fundamentally he speaks for the poor, he has lent his voice to the poor,” Grabois later added from the headquarters of the Dicastery in the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome.
For the social leader, the pontiff “has become his lawyer, the lawyer of the poor and poor people, the best lawyer in the world.”
During the symposium in which Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery, also participated, Grabois also highlighted the Pope’s call for political participation.
“It tells us to get involved in politics, of course, without indicating a specific party or a particular line of thought, but setting clear limits against dehumanizing hegemonic proposals that deny the primacy of human dignity over economic benefits,” he developed in that address.
According to Grabois, in the 2013 exhortation, the first written by Francis as Pope, the pontiff “proposes that we exchange well-being for joy.”
“I say a life program because it sets existential guidelines for us,” he continued.
“I never saw either Bergoglio or Francis aligned with any ideology or government or political leader,” Grabois later emphasized, after tracing a chronology of how he met the current Pope in Buenos Aires.
In this framework, he criticized the “political interests” that pulled the figure of Bergoglio to one side or the other.
“Ideologies, understood by the term as the idea that replaces reality with a false representation, are always devices at the service of particular interests,” he later criticized, since “they do not capture reality to understand it or seek paths of transformation in the service of good.” common and of the poor.
In his speech, the leader called on all recipients of the exhortation to read it again ten years later, including bishops and priests.
In addition, he added “an interested request, because I have to suffer it, to the social activists who suffer persecution for our choice of life, for trying to follow this program, do not leave us alone.”
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