Pope Francis addresses UN General Assembly

September 25, 2015 19:51

Pope Francis has a busy day in New York, and it kicks off with a much-anticipated speech in front of a global audience.

As he's done in front of Congress and in speeches throughout Washington, Francis is expected to address climate change and the migrant crisis in Europe.

Here are highlights of his speech:

* The poorest are those who suffer most from economic and social exclusion, for three grave reasons: they are cast off by society, at the same time forced to live off what is discarded and suffer unjustly from the abuse of the environment. These phenomena are part of todays widespread and quietly growing 'culture of waste'.

* In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and disadvantaged, either because they are handicapped, or because they lack adequate information and technical expertise, or are incapable of decisive political action.

* The limitation of power is an idea implicit in the concept of law itself.

* We live in communion with the environment, since the latter itself entails ethical limits which human actions must acknowledge and respect.

* The classic definition of justice means that no human individual or group can consider itself absolute, permitted to bypass the dignity and the rights of other individuals or social groups.

* Reform and adaptation to the times is always necessary in the pursuit of the ultimate goal of granting all countries, without exception, a share in, and a genuine and equitable influence on, decision-making processes.

* The international financial agencies should care for the sustainable development of countries, and should ensure that they are not subjected to oppressive lending systems which, far from promoting progress, subject people to mechanisms which generate greater poverty, exclusion and dependence.

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