Mags GarganThe global economic system exploits regional and national differences in labour costs, taking advantage of the poor and destroying jobs in countries where the rights and dignity of workers enjoy greater protections, Pope Francis said.
The fundamental right to work, he said, cannot be considered a variable dependent on financial and monetary markets. It is a basic good in respect to dignity, the formation of a family, the realisation of the common good and peace.
Addressing members of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the Pope praised retired Pope Benedict XVI is 2009 encyclical letter, Charity in Truth, as an essential document for evangelising Catholicsí social involvement and for highlighting the benefits, but also the dangers of globalisation when it is not oriented toward the good of peoplesî. Globalisation, Pope Francis said, has produced increased wealth, but it ìhas also exacerbated the gaps between different social groups, creating inequality .