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Pope Francis Calls for Fight against Globalism
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Masatoshi
Takeshita
December
20, 2013
English translation of a Japanese article: Diary of Town lawyer – December 20, 2013 –
Pope
Francis Calls for Fight against Globalism
The Pope has called for fight against
globalism.
I have learned about it on a blog “Learn
from “Houkoku Sensei.”
The news translated into Japanese was
posted on the Japanese site of the Wall Street Journal. I’ll copy and paste it here.
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Nov. 27, 2013 12:42 JST
(Original text:
ROME— Pope Francis laid out his first major
manifesto since becoming the head of the Catholic Church eight months ago, calling for the church to renew its
focus on the poor and launching a salvo against global capitalism.
The document, called "Evangelii
Gaudium," or "The Joy of the Gospel," pulls together many of the
themes Pope Francis has emphasized since his election, including an exhortation for the church to
focus far more on its pastoral mission, while denouncing inequality and social
injustice.
Using unusually blunt language, he sharply criticized the market economy. "Just as the commandment
'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of
human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of
exclusion and inequality," wrote the pontiff in the 224-page document
known as the apostolic exhortation.
"Such an economy kills," wrote
Pope Francis, denouncing
the current economic system as "unjust at its roots" and one "which defend(s)
the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation." Such a system, he warned, is creating a "new
tyranny," which "unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws
and rules."
Tuesday's papal pronouncement is the first
major document written entirely by Pope Francis. Although the pope jointly
signed the encyclical "The Light of Faith" in July with his
predecessor, it was mainly written by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI before he
resigned in February.
"Benedict seemed to aim his critique
at state and market alike, whereas Francis seems to move the ball considerably
in the direction of the idea that the market has far more power—the power to do
good for humanity as well as to dehumanize—than the state," said Chad
Pecknold, assistant professor of theology at the Catholic University of America
in Washington.
The pope urged care for the weakest members
of society, particularly the homeless, the addicted, refugees, migrants and
elderly.
In reaching out to such groups, the church must
be prepared to be "bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on
the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and
from clinging to its own security," he wrote in the document. The pontiff singled out as a major challenge of the
contemporary world an economic system that produces vast income inequalities,
arguing that it leaves the oppressed and marginalized as "leftovers."
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The Pope of the Catholics Church calls for
the fight against global capitalism.
This article makes the intellectual
deterioration of Japanese intellectuals stand out.
I feel that people called left-wingers are
less sensitive to the risk of globalism.
As for left-wing legal scholars, they have
almost devastating mentality.
No legal scholars, administrative law
scholars, or international law scholars have tried to take a firm stand against
globalism yet.
Though it might be about the unknown, they
won’t correct undisputed injustice.
I’d rather not say, but I feel an impulse
to abuse them verbally: “You thought-stopping left-wingers!”
(Note)
Font change into red letters made by Mr.
Takeshita
