The activities of the 19th International Conference on Charity and Voluntary Work of UCAM continued today with the intervention of Monsignor Bruno-Marie Duffé, secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, who gave the lecture entitled ‘Meaning and content of Integral Human Development’. Monsignor Duffé explained that “Pope Francis wants to give a new dynamic to the mission of the Church by trying to achieve a transversality among the problems of development, education, human rights, health, and solidarity with the poorest and migrants who have left their land to try to find a place of protection and integration”.

Monsignor Duffé also addressed the issue of the fight for peace, whose problems are very difficult because there is a conflict of economic, power and ideological interests that complicates his work, as he ensured. “We must propose a reflection and accompany the actors of peace, civil society, economic life, local communities and politicians”, said Monsignor Duffé. He also pointed out that peace is built on the need to find the conditions to make life possible on the planet and particularly in countries that have suffered from war. “Economy is very important in the perspective of peace, as well as the protection of the weakest and the reference to the first principle of the Catholic social doctrine, which is the dignity of the human person, respect, to see the other as a unique human being”.