He Pope Francisco today appointed the former Argentine judge of the Supreme Court of Justice, Dr. Raúl Eugenio Zaffaroni in a new academic body of the Holy See that deals with social rights, migration and colonialism, while granting it status of “Private Association of Faithful” to a Committee of Judges created by the Buenos Aires magistrate Andrés Gallardo in 2019.
Zaffaroni’s election follows the line begun a few years ago by Francis who, through key appointments both in the College of Cardinals and in the Vatican structure, seeks to guide the church with his vision of attention to social rights, integral ecology, ethnic minorities, women and the relegated They have no voice in the world.
Zaffaroni’s appointment
The appointment of magistrate Zaffaroni was announced through a document sent this morning by the Vatican press room, where it was reported that The Pope resolved the creation of the Institute for the investigation and promotion of Social Rights Fray Bartolomé de las Casaswith academic, educational and training purposes on the subject of Social Rights, migration and colonialism.
A multicultural line organism
The new organism that will be in charge of the Argentinean Zaffaroni will function in the field of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, chaired by a woman, Sister Helen Alforf, an English national and the African cardinal, Chancellor Peter Turkson. Organization that will be financially supported, directed and administered by the Pan American Committee of Judges for Social Rights and Franciscan Doctrine (COPAJU). An organ for the dissemination of Franciscan thought from a legal perspective created by the Pontiff in the Vatican in June 2019.
Pope Francis, referring to Copaju, said that “it has developed a prolific task aimed at the protection and promotion of social rights from the judiciaryplacing special emphasis on the discarded social sectors, affected by the different processes of neocolonialism”.
Now Francisco also resolved the change of Vatican status of Copajuwhich will become a formal entity within the structure.
A very important body for developing the ideals of the Social Doctrine of the Church carried out by the Pontiff, a man especially close to the oppressed, the poor, the victims of conflictswhich teaches and practices Christian social thought.
Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Senate.jpg
National Senate
Zaffaroni appointed for the period 2023-2028
“I designate for the period 2023-2028 as the Founding Academic Board of the aforementioned Institute Professors Doctors Raúl Eugenio Zaffaroni, Alberto Filippi and Marcelo Suárez Orozco“added the Pope in the document published by the press room.
A Committee of Judges created by the argentinian judge Andres Gallardo, which has Vatican status, and which was the visible face of international events of the institution such as the meetings in Rome in 2019 and 2023, the one in Iguazú in Argentina in 2021, the meeting in Mexico in 2022 and the one in Asunción in Paraguay in 2023 .
For a long time Judge Gallardo has been close to Jorge bergoglio. Many remember that they met in 2004 due to a legal case on the cartoneros conflict. In fact, a ruling of his against the management of Aníbal Ibarra was key to the creation of a subsidy for urban recuperators and recyclers. In 2018 he published a book on the thoughts of the Supreme Pontiff, “Francis vs. Moloch. Ideas for an ecosocial revolution” to which Francisco thanked for its content.
Source: Ambito
