poor shake a cup which never runs over by itself. Welfare programs geared to   
   certain emergencies can only be considered temporary responses. They will never   
   be able to replace true inclusion, an inclusion which provides worthy, free,   
   creative, participatory and fraternal work.   
    "Along this path, popular movements play an essential role, not only by making   
   demands and lodging protests, but even more basically by being creative. You   
   are   
   social poets: creators of work, builders of housing, producers of food, above   
   all for people left behind by the world market. I have seen at first hand a   
   variety of experiences where workers united in cooperatives and other forms of   
   community organisation were able to create work where there were only crumbs of   
   an idolatrous economy. Recuperated businesses, local fairs and cooperatives of   
   paper collectors are examples of that popular economy which is born of   
   exclusion   
   and which, slowly, patiently and resolutely adopts fraternal forms which   
   dignify   
   it. How different this is than the situation which results when those left   
   behind by the formal market are exploited like slaves!   
    "Governments which make it their responsibility to put the economy at the   
   service of peoples must promote the strengthening, improvement, coordination   
   and   
   expansion of these forms of popular economy and communitarian production. This   
   entails improving the processes of work, providing adequate infrastructures and   
   guaranteeing workers their full rights in this alternative sector. When the   
   state and social organisations join in working for the three 'L's', the   
   principles of solidarity and subsidiarity come into play; and these allow the   
   common good to be achieved in a full and participatory democracy.   
    "The second task is to unite our peoples on the path of peace and justice. The   
   world's peoples want to be artisans of their own destiny. They want to advance   
   peacefully towards justice. They do not want forms of tutelage or interference   
   by which those with greater power subordinate those with less. They want their   
   culture, their language, their social processes and their religious traditions   
   to be respected. No actual or established power has the right to deprive   
   peoples   
   of the full exercise of their sovereignty. Whenever they do so, we see the rise   
   of new forms of colonialism which seriously prejudice the possibility of peace   
   and justice. For 'peace is founded not only on respect for human rights but   
   also   
   on respect for the rights of peoples, in particular the right to independence'.   
   The peoples of Latin America fought to gain their political independence and   
   for   
   almost two centuries their history has been dramatic and filled with   
   contradictions, as they have striven to achieve full independence.   
    "In recent years, after any number of misunderstandings, many Latin American   
   countries have seen the growth of fraternity between their peoples. The   
   governments of the region have pooled forces in order to ensure respect for the   
   sovereignty of their own countries and the entire region, which our forebears   
   so   
   beautifully called the 'greater country'. I ask you, my brothers and sisters of   
   the popular movements, to foster and increase this unity. It is necessary to   
   maintain unity in the face of every effort to divide, if the region is to grow   
   in peace and justice.   
    "Despite the progress made, there are factors which still threaten this   
   equitable human development and restrict the sovereignty of the countries of   
   the   
   'greater country' and other areas of our planet. The new colonialism takes on   
   different faces. At times it appears as the anonymous influence of mammon:   
   corporations, loan agencies, certain 'free trade' treaties, and the imposition   
   of measures of 'austerity' which always tighten the belt of workers and the   
   poor. The bishops of Latin America denounce this with utter clarity in the   
   Aparecida Document, stating that 'financial institutions and transnational   
   companies are becoming stronger to the point that local economies are   
   subordinated, especially weakening the local states, which seem ever more   
   powerless to carry out development projects in the service of their   
   populations'. At other times, under the noble guise of battling corruption, the   
   narcotics trade and terrorism - grave evils of our time which call for   
   coordinated international action - we see states being saddled with measures   
   which have little to do with the resolution of these problems and which not   
   infrequently worsen matters.   
    "Similarly, the monopolising of the communications media, which would impose   
   alienating examples of consumerism and a certain cultural uniformity, is   
   another   
   one of the forms taken by the new colonialism. It is ideological colonialism.   
   As   
   the African bishops have observed, poor countries are often treated like 'parts   
   of a machine, cogs on a gigantic wheel'.   
    "It must be acknowledged that none of the grave problems of humanity can be   
   resolved without interaction between states and peoples at the international   
   level. Every significant action carried out in one part of the planet has   
   universal, ecological, social and cultural repercussions. Even crime and   
   violence have become globalised. Consequently, no government can act   
   independently of a common responsibility. If we truly desire positive change,   
   we   
   have to humbly accept our interdependence. Interaction, however, is not the   
   same   
   as imposition; it is not the subordination of some to serve the interests of   
   others. Colonialism, both old and new, which reduces poor countries to mere   
   providers of raw material and cheap labour, engenders violence, poverty, forced   
   migrations and all the evils which go hand in hand with these, precisely   
   because, by placing the periphery at the service of the centre, it denies those   
   countries the right to an integral development. That is inequality, and   
   inequality generates a violence which no police, military, or intelligence   
   resources can control.   
    "Let us say 'no' to forms of colonialism old and new. Let us say 'yes' to the   
   encounter between peoples and cultures.0 Blessed are the peacemakers.   
    "Here I wish to bring up an important issue. Some may rightly say, 'When the   
   Pope speaks of colonialism, he overlooks certain actions of the Church'. I say   
   this to you with regret: many grave sins were committed against the native   
   peoples of America in the name of God. My predecessors acknowledged this, CELAM   
   has said it, and I too wish to say it. Like St. John Paul II, I ask that the   
   Church 'kneel before God and implore forgiveness for the past and present sins   
   of her sons and daughters'. I would also say, and here I wish to be quite   
   clear,   
   as was St. John Paul II: I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offences of   
   the Church herself, but also for crimes committed against the native peoples   
   during the so-called conquest of America.   
    "I also ask everyone, believers and non-believers alike, to think of those   
   many   
   bishops, priests and laity who preached and continue to preach the Good News of   
   Jesus with courage and meekness, respectfully and pacifically; who left behind   
   them impressive works of human promotion and of love, often standing alongside   
   the native peoples or accompanying their popular movements even to the point of   
   martyrdom. The Church, her sons and daughters, are part of the identity of the   
   peoples of Latin America. An identity which here, as in other countries, some   
   powers are committed to erasing, at times because our faith is revolutionary,   
   because our faith challenges the tyranny of mammon. Today we are dismayed to   
   see   
   how in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world many of our brothers and   
   sisters are persecuted, tortured and killed for their faith in Jesus. This too   
   needs to be denounced: in this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are   
   now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end.   
    "To our brothers and sisters in the Latin American indigenous movement, allow   
   me to express my deep affection and appreciation of their efforts to bring   
   peoples and cultures together in a form of coexistence which I would call   
   polyhedric, where each group preserves its own identity by building together a   
   plurality which does not threaten but rather reinforces unity. Your quest for   
   an   
   interculturalism, which combines the defence of the rights of the native   
   peoples   
   with respect for the territorial integrity of states, is for all of us a source   
   of enrichment and encouragement.   
    "The third task, perhaps the most important facing us today, is to defend   
   Mother Earth. Our common home is being pillaged, laid waste and harmed with   
   impunity. Cowardice in defending it is a grave sin. We see with growing   
   disappointment how one international summit after another takes place without   
   any significant result. There exists a clear, definite and pressing ethical   
   imperative to implement what has not yet been done. We cannot allow certain   
   interests - interests which are global but not universal - to take over, to   
   dominate states and international organisations, and to continue destroying   
   creation. People and their movements are called to cry out, to mobilise and to   
   demand - peacefully, but firmly - that appropriate and urgently-needed measures   
   be taken. I ask you, in the name of God, to defend Mother Earth. I have duly   
   addressed this issue in my Encyclical Letter 'Laudato Si''.   
    "In conclusion, I would like to repeat: the future of humanity does not lie   
   solely in the hands of great leaders, the great powers and the elites. It is   
   fundamentally in the hands of peoples and in their ability to organise. It is   
   in   
   their hands, which can guide with humility and conviction this process of   
   change. I am with you. Let us together say from the heart: no family without   
   lodging, no rural worker without land, no labourer without rights, no people   
   without sovereignty, no individual without dignity, no child without childhood,   
   no young person without a future, no elderly person without a venerable old   
   age.   
   Keep up your struggle and, please, take great care of Mother Earth. I pray for   
   you and with you, and I ask God our Father to accompany you and to bless you,   
   to   
   fill you with His love and defend you on your way by granting you in abundance   
   that strength which keeps us on our feet: that strength is hope, the hope which   
   does not disappoint. Thank you and I ask you, please, to pray for me".   
    Today, Friday 10 July, the Holy Father will visit the detainees in Palmasola   
   prison and will meet privately with the bishops of Bolivia. At 12.45 p.m. local   
   time (6.45 p.m. Italian time) he will arrive at Viru Viru airport in Santa Cruz   
   de la Sierra, where he will depart by air for Paraguay, the final stage of his   
   apostolic trip.   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 10 July 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:   
    - Bishop Dominique Lebrun of Saint-Etienne, France, as metropolitan archbishop   
   of Rouen (area 4,228, population 868,500, Catholics 652,000, priests 135,   
   permanent deacons 19, religious 218), France.   
    - Fr. George Bugeja, O.F.M., as coadjutor of the apostolic vicariate of   
   Tripoli   
   (area 1,000,000, population 6,204,000, Catholics 50,000, priests 1, religious   
   11), Libya. The bishop-elect was born in Xaghara, Malta in 1962, gave his   
   solemn   
   vows in 1983, and was ordained a priest in 1986. He holds a diploma in   
   journalism and has served in a number of pastoral and administrative roles   
   including guardian of the communities of Hamrun, Rabat, Gozo and Sliema; parish   
   priest in Sliiema; auditor of the ecclesiastical tribunal and official in the   
   Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. He is currently guardian of the   
   convent of St. Anthony of Padua in Ghajnsielem, Gozo.   
      
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    Notice   
    Vatican City, 10 July 2015 (VIS) - Tomorrow, Saturday 11 July, an   
   extraordinary   
   edition of the Vatican Information Service bulletin will be transmitted due to   
   the Pope's apostolic trip to Latin America.   
      
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