CONFERRING AND CLAIMING HUMAN DIGNITY
We treasure with gratitude the pontificate of Pope Francis for its many gifts. One such gift stands out: inclusiveness. In the spirit of liberation theology, this Holy Father sought to include those forlorn on the margins whom others had forgotten.
From Untouchable to Harijan
When it comes to including the excluded, the pontiff carried on the Indian precedent of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi felt that the very concept of outcaste or untouchable was dehumanizing, anti-divine, and repugnant. So, Gandhi renamed these beloveds of God, Harijan – that is, Children of God.
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