To better understand popular movements and why the pope supports them, the Pontifical Commission for Latin America presents this book: “The Emergence of Popular Movements,” edited by Guzmán Carriquiry and Gianni La Bella.
PROF. GUZMÁN CARRIQUIRY
Editor, “The Emergence of Popular Movements”
The Holy Father, in a fine discernment of reality, has perceived the emergence of these of these “new ideas” that arise on a social level. These are the Popular Movements.
GIANNI LA BELLA
Editor, “The Emergence of Popular Movements”
With this book, we basically want to put the pope's speeches on Popular Movements at the center of the Church's debate. They represent part of the magisterium that Pope Francis dedicates to the great social question.
Popular Movements embody the culture of encounter that the pope speaks about. They are grass-root groups that promote the defense of three basic rights of workers.
These workers ask for “land” to work, a “roof” to live under and “job” to earn a living. In front of these groups in Bolivia in 2015, the pope gave the longest speech of his pontificate. There, he denounced “throwaway culture” that's produced from a perverse economic system.
POPE FRANCIS
July 9, 2015
This economy kills. This economy excludes.
The book has a second title: “Rerum Novarum of Our Time.” The Rerum Novarum was the social encyclical published in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII. The pontiff at the time expressed his thoughts about the new social scenario and role of the Church in these injustices against workers. This image serves to show what the current pontiff is doing.
Translated: Rachel Dobrzynski
