Pope condemns profits from war, inequality

May 12, 2015

Pope Francis led 7,000 schoolchildren in a chant, “Where there is not justice, there is no peace,” during a May 11 encounter.

In an exchange with young people, in an audience arranged by the educational group Fabbrica della Pace, the Pope became energetic in responding to a question about equality. “We all have the same rights,” he said, going on to charge that inequality is evidence of injustice. He went on to say, “and where there is no justice, there cannot be peace.” Then he asked the children to join him, repeating the slogan as the audience came to an end.

Earlier, when a student asked why government leaders did not provide more support for education, Pope Francis said that he wanted to expand on the question. “Why do many powerful people not want peace?” he asked. The Pontiff then answered his own rhetorical question:

Because they live from war, from the arms industry. Some powerful people earn from the production of arms, and sell weapons to one country that fights against another, and then they sell them to the other. It is the industry of death!

 

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Further information:

• Where there is no justice, there is no peace (VIS)
• Make small changes for the good, Pope encourages schoolchildren (CWN, 5/11)