“In fact,” Bergoglio emphasizes with evident bitterness, “looking carefully at our contemporary societies, there are numerous contradictions that lead us to ask ourselves whether the equal dignity of all human beings, solemnly proclaimed 70 years ago, is really recognized, respected, protected and promoted in all circumstances. In fact, “numerous forms of injustice seem to prevail, nourished by reductive anthropological visions, and by an economic model based on profit that does not hesitate to exploit, discard and even kill men and women”. “While a part of humanity lives in opulence, another part sees their own dignity disowned, despised or trampled on and their fundamental rights ignored or violated,” the Pope denounces.
The Pope: “one part of humanity lives in opulence, the other is despised” — Message of Francis at the Gregorian University on Human Rights, 70 years after the Universal Declaration
