Pastoral justice in the church: to be or not to be. Regarding the relationship justice - mercy
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The celebration of the Jubilee Year of Mercy is an occasion to return to a long tradition theme in the Church: the relationship between justice and mercy. A reflection that was particularly present in Pope John Paul II and that, in the past year, Pope Francis has taken up at various times. Two pontiffs who offer complementary perspectives on this particular binomial: while in the Papal Bull Misericordiae Vultus, looking at our societies, Pope Francis presents mercy as an overcoming of justice, in his speech to the Roman Rota in 1990 John Paul II understands that, in the law of the Church, justice is expression of mercy, thus there is harmony between the two. Therefore, within the framework of Canon Law, we should not forget that justice and mercy are inseparable: either justice is pastoral... or, simply, it will not be true justice.
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