Vatican City, 12 December, 2021 / 3:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Pope Francis urged Catholic jurists on Friday to safeguard the rights of society’s most vulnerable members.
Speaking to representatives of the Union of Italian Catholic Jurists on Dec. 10, the pope said that defending the weak was an urgent task.
“Never as in these days, as in these times, have Catholic jurists been called to affirm and protect the rights of the weakest, within an economic and social system that pretends to include diversity but, in reality, systematically excludes those without a voice,” he said.
“The rights of workers, migrants, the sick, unborn children, those at the end of their life, and the poorest are ever more frequently neglected and or denied in this throwaway culture. Those who do not have the capacity to spend and to consume seem to be worth nothing.”