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The processes of social healing, reconciliation and peace require a long-term commitment. It is a patient work of searching – with compassion – for truth and justice, honouring the memory of the victims and opening, step by step, to a common hope, stronger than revenge.
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Fratelli tutti: Summary of Chapter 6
Fratelli tutti: Summary of Chapter 6
Monday, February 28, 2022
Friendship in society starts with dialogue. Authentic social dialogue involves the ability to respect the other’s point of view and to admit that it may include legitimate convictions and concerns, even if we cannot accept it as our own conviction. In this way, it becomes possible to be frank and open about our beliefs, while continuing to discuss, to seek points of contact, and above all, to work and struggle together.
Fr. Fernando Zolli: “Fraternity and Social Friendship”
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.
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.
Fr. Francesco Pierli: “Mission and Social Transformation”
Monday, February 28, 2022
Since my first departure for Africa in 1973, my joy was to be able to proclaim the Gospel to the ‘poorest and most abandoned’. My interest in the reality of social injustice went back to my time in my family, where native region of Umbria and my family members were socialists.
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: