Globalization that leads to exclusion is not global: Card. Veglio

February 26, 2013: A globalization that leads to a widespread exclusion is simply not global, said Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, on Tuesday. He was speaking at a meeting of the Scientific Committee of the Christian Union of Business Executives (UCID) in Rome. A globalization process that involves inclusion, continued Cardinal Veglio, can only be achieved with a conscious effort of solidarity and is the result of decisions very real part of every human being.

Talking about the fundamental mission of the church, the Cardinal said that she is called to be “a sign and instrument of intimate union with God and the unity of all mankind." No one is a stranger in the Church and it is not foreign to anyone. As a sacrament of unity, the Church is the place where migrants are recognized and accepted as brothers and sisters, said the Cardinal, adding the Church, without distinction of race, culture or origin, welcomes everyone with joy, love and hope. It does so with particular attention to those who are in situations of poverty, marginalization and exclusion.

Citing Pope Benedict XVI, he said that the Church, from its inception, is oriented towards embracing the whole universe and with it, every people, every culture and tradition. There is only one human family - one family of brothers and sisters in a society increasingly characterized by multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism - that the Church is called to serve.

We are now faced with a completely new global situation that awaits an innovative response. "The growing interdependence of the world has given them a global dimension, which requires new ways of thinking and new types of international cooperation to address them effectively. The process of globalization is bringing people closer and closer to each other, the Cardinal observed.

Compared to financial globalization, many signs indicate that the degree of globalization of migration is much more limited. The free movement of people between countries is the subject of heated debates and international negotiations, often designed to allow only temporary movement of persons having qualifications directly related to the business or services.
It is also necessary to recognize the fundamental role of society to formulate measures concerning immigration, and to encourage full respect for the rights of all migrants.
We must reiterate that the Church has long argued in his teachings about the phenomenon of emigration. In her social doctrine, the Church has always safeguarded the right of every human being to emigrate. The Catholic Church has always maintained that the human right to migrate is among the fundamental human rights and allows people to settle where they wish to build their capacity, their aspirations and their projects.
Citing Pope Benedict’s message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, he said the Pontiff highlighted Church's teaching about the phenomenon of emigration. In the current social and political context of the world, "before the right to emigrate, it reaffirmed right not to emigrate, that is, to be able to remain in their own land."