Monday, February 28, 2022
We live in a time in need of “heroes of the future”. (FT. 202), as Pope Francis reminds us in the Encyclical Fratelli tutti (2020), especially in Chapter VI, which dismantles the notion of a global coexistence based on principles, paradigms and concrete choices that create “happy and fortified islands” only for a few, jealous of the standard of living achieved, ready to attack or prevent any aggression by billions of people who are excluded from the possibility of living a worthy life.
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Fr. Fernando Zolli: “Fraternity and Social Friendship”
Fr. Jorge Carlos Naranjo: “Journeying Together”
Monday, February 28, 2022
That Sunday I was returning to my community in Khartoum after celebrating Mass in one of the centers of the parish of Masalma (Omdurman) located on the outskirts of the city, where the desert and the city meet and those displaced by the wars of South Sudan and the Nuba Mountains had settled.
Bro. Alberto Parise: “The Culture of Encounter”
Monday, February 28, 2022
The culture of encounter is a theme that runs throughout the encyclical letter Fratelli tutti and it is a theme dear to Pope Francis, as it contrasts the “throw away” culture that characterises our global age. We are talking about a complex situation, which the Pope describes as follows:
Fr. Giuseppe Caramazza: “Evangelizing Politics”
Monday, February 28, 2022
“Once more, I appeal for a renewed appreciation of politics as a lofty vocation and one of the highest forms of charity, inasmuch as it seeks the common good” (FT 180). “Charity finds expression not only in close and intimate relationships but also in macro-relationships: social, economic and political” (FT 181).
Bro. Alberto Lamana: “From the Vantage Point of the Comboni Brothers”
Monday, February 28, 2022
The encyclical Fratelli tutti resonates with freshness and dynamism in religious life and, in particular, its invitation to dream of a united and fraternal humanity is undoubtedly a fundamental element of its prophetic dimension. Francis insists on the urgency of promoting processes that break with the dynamics that discard people as “scraps” and create spaces of inclusion, respect and dignity.
Fratelli tutti: Summary of Chapter 5
Monday, February 21, 2022
The development of a global community of fraternity based on the practice of social friendship on the part of peoples and nations calls for a better kind of politics, one truly at the service of the common good. Sadly, politics today often takes forms that hinder progress towards a different world, like for instance populism and liberalism.