Sharing ownership “is not communism, it is pure Christianity”. So Pope francesco commenting this morning – during the Mass celebrated in the Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia on the occasion of the Feast of Divine Mercy – the passage from the Acts of the Apostles which says that “no one considered his property what belonged to him, but between them everything was common”. “The ‘merciful’ disciples have become merciful”, explains Bergoglio. For them “sharing earthly goods seemed a natural consequence. The text then says that ‘none of them was in need'”.
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Already last November the Pope had spoken of Private property and of the fact that his right “is not untouchable”. In a reflection addressed to the judges of America and Africa who deal with social rights, he said that a “new social justice must be built on the assumption that the Christian tradition has never recognized the right to private property as absolute and untouchable” and has always emphasized instead “the social function”. “The right of property – he said – is a secondary natural right derived from the right that everyone has, born from the universal destiny of created goods”. And again: “There is no social justice that can be founded on inequality, which implies the concentration of wealth”.
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The Pope’s thought on this subject found further study in the Encyclical “Brothers all”. Francesco recalled the thought of John Chrysostom and of Gregory the Great who maintain the fact that providing for the primary needs towards the least is “giving back what belongs to them”. Quoting Paul VI e John Paul II, Bergoglio affirmed that “the right to private property can only be considered as a secondary natural right derived from the principle of the universal destination of created goods, and this has very concrete consequences, which must be reflected in the functioning of society”.
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