{"id":2072,"date":"2020-10-04T17:18:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T16:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2020-10-04T17:18:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T16:18:38","slug":"fratelli-tutti-pope-franciss-social-encyclical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laysalvatorians.org\/update\/2020\/10\/04\/fratelli-tutti-pope-franciss-social-encyclical\/","title":{"rendered":"Fratelli tutti: Pope Francis’s Social Encyclical"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Fraternity and social friendship are the ways the Pontiff indicates to build a better, more just and peaceful world, with the contribution of all: people and institutions. With an emphatic confirmation of a \u2018no\u2019 to war and to globalized indifference.<\/p>\n

What are the great ideals but also the tangible ways to advance for those who wish to build a more just and fraternal world in their ordinary relationships, in social life, politics and institutions? This is mainly the question that Fratelli tutti<\/a><\/i> is intended to answer: the Pope describes it as a \u201cSocial Encyclical\u201d (6) which borrows the title of the \u201cAdmonitions\u201d of Saint Francis of Assisi, who used these words to \u201caddress his brothers and sisters and proposed to them a way of life marked by the flavour of the Gospel\u201d (1). The Poverello<\/i> \u201cdid not wage a war of words aimed at imposing doctrines; he simply spread the love of God\u201d, the Pope writes, and \u201che became a father to all and inspired the vision of a fraternal society\u201d (2-4). The Encyclical aims to promote a universal aspiration toward fraternity and social friendship. Beginning with our common membership in the human family, from the acknowledgement that we are brothers and sisters because we are the children of one Creator, all in the same boat, and hence we need to be aware that in a globalized and interconnected world, only together can we be saved. The Document on Human Fraternity<\/i> signed by Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in February 2019 is an inspirational influence cited many times.<\/p>\n

Fraternity is to be encouraged not only in words but in deeds. Deeds made tangible in a \u201cbetter kind of politics\u201d, which is not subordinated to financial interests, but to serving the common good, able to place the dignity of every human being at the centre and assure work to everyone so that each one can develop his or her own abilities. A politics which, removed from populism, is able to find solutions to what attacks fundamental human rights and which aims to definitively eliminate hunger and trafficking. At the same time, Pope Francis underscores that a more just world is achieved by promoting peace, which is not merely the absence of war; it demands \u201ccraftsmanship\u201d, a job that involves everyone. Linked to truth, peace and reconciliation must be \u201cproactive\u201d; they must work toward justice through dialogue, in the name of mutual development. This begets the Pontiff’s condemnation of war, the \u201cnegation of all rights\u201d and is no longer conceivable even in a hypothetically \u201cjustified\u201d form because nuclear, chemical and biological weapons already have enormous repercussions on innocent civilians. There is also a strong rejection of the death penalty, defined as  \u201cinadmissible\u201d, and a central reflection on forgiveness, connected to the concepts of remembrance and justice: to forgive does not mean to forget, the Pontiff writes, nor to give up defending one’s rights to safeguard one’s dignity, which is a gift from God. In the background of the Encyclical is the Covid-19 pandemic which, Francis reveals, \u201cunexpectedly erupted\u201d as he \u201cwas writing this letter\u201d. But the global health emergency has helped demonstrate that \u201cno one can face life in isolation\u201d and that the time has truly come to \u201cdream, then, as a single human family\u201d in which we are \u201cbrothers and sisters all\u201d (7-8).<\/p>\n

Read the whole article by Isabella Piro \u2013 Vatican City<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

You can download the whole Encyclical in several languages from here<\/a><\/p>\n

For comments and discussions use our ICDS-Forum<\/a>, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fraternity and social friendship are the ways the Pontiff indicates to build a better, more just and peaceful world, with the contribution of all: people and institutions. With an emphatic confirmation of a \u2018no\u2019 to war and to globalized indifference. …<\/p>\n

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