Terra, casa, lavoro

The three main political discourses of Pope Francis on social and economic injustice. A fundamental document of our times.

“This meeting of ours is to answer a very real yearning, something that any father and any mother want for their children: a yearning that should be available to everyone but that sadly, has become increasingly out of reach for most people: land, home, and work. It is strange, but if I mention this, for some then the Pope is a communist. What they fail to see is that love for the poor is at the centre of the Gospel. Land, Home and Work, for which you all fight, are sacred rights”.

Pronounced in Rome and South America between 2014 and 2016 in front of an audience of representatives of worldwide social movements, these words are the most important declarations on these issues, and are the foundation of the ambitious project elaborated by the Vatican to connect the most varied international projects for the program called the three T’s (“tierra, techo, trabajo”, “land, home, work”).

This book contains the simple yet radical words pronounced by the Pope.

An interview with Juan Grabois, one of the organisers of these meetings for popular movements completes the book as well as a detailed reconstruction of the meetings and the evolution of Bergoglio’s political vision by Alessandro Santagata, an expert in history of Catholicism.