Throughout the encyclical, the pope emphasized the primacy of love, in both social and political contexts. Yet today’s world presents us with many false rights and – at the same time – broad sectors which are vulnerable, victims of power badly exercised”.[148]. [158] Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ (24 May 2015), 189: AAS 107 (2015), 922. [52] Let us continue, then, to advance along the paths of hope. [137] Address to the Diplomatic Corps Accredited to the Holy See (12 January 2015): AAS 107 (2015), 165; cf. This recognition, as it becomes a culture, makes possible the creation of a social covenant. [210] EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE OF THE CONGO, Message au Peuple de Dieu et aux femmes et aux hommes de bonne volonté (9 May 2018). Here I would stress that “it is impossible to imagine that states today have no other means than capital punishment to protect the lives of other people from the unjust aggressor”. This has concrete consequences that ought to be reflected in the workings of society. Truth means telling families torn apart by pain what happened to their missing relatives. Some texts are very clear in this regard: we are told to admonish our opponents “with gentleness” (2 Tim 2:25) and encouraged “to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone. 224. [199] Message for the 2014 World Communications Day (24 January 2014): AAS 106 (2014), 113. 1, concl. Let me repeat: we need to have “the courage to give a voice to those who are discriminated against due to their disability, because sadly, in some countries even today, people find it hard to acknowledge them as persons of equal dignity”. They are also the privileged milieu for transmitting the faith, beginning with those first simple gestures of devotion which mothers teach their children. 167. 190. Each of us can learn something from others. On May 26, 2020, Pope Francis authorised the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a decree regarding the forthcoming canonisation of Blessed Charles de Foucauld. [157] Cf. [159] Instead, “what is needed is a politics which is far-sighted and capable of a new, integral and interdisciplinary approach to handling the different aspects of the crisis”. "Fratelli tutti," the text's opening phrase, means "All brothers" in Italian. [249] Address to Delegates of the International Association of Penal Law (23 October 2014): AAS 106 (2014), 840. [127], 147. 158. 172. [112], 132. This need to transcend our own limitations also applies to different regions and countries. He was a “nobody”, undistinguished, irrelevant to their plans for the future. Rev 12:17). Although reality is one, it can be approached from various angles and with different methodologies. And if we extend our gaze to the history of our own lives and that of the entire world, all of us are, or have been, like each of the characters in the parable. There is an episode in the life of Saint Francis that shows his openness of heart, which knew no bounds and transcended differences of origin, nationality, colour or religion. 60. [35] The notion of “every man for himself” will rapidly degenerate into a free-for-all that would prove worse than any pandemic. [57] Video Message to the TED Conference in Vancouver (26 April 2017):L’Osservatore Romano, 27 April 2017, p. 7. Click Download or Read Online Button to get Access Fratelli Tutti (All Brothers): Encyclical letter on Fraternity and Soc ebook. 150. Consumerist individualism has led to great injustice. Nonetheless, there are attempts nowadays to reduce persons to isolated individuals easily manipulated by powers pursuing spurious interests. The opportunities offered by the end of the Cold War were not, however, adequately seized due to a lack of a vision for the future and a shared consciousness of our common destiny. Freedom thus becomes an illusion that we are peddled, easily confused with the ability to navigate the internet. It often happens that good ideas are not accepted by the poorer sectors of society because they are presented in a cultural garb that is not their own and with which they cannot identify. [103], 124. 220. [87] Message for the 2016 World Day of Peace (8 December 2015), 6: AAS 108 (2016), 57-58. [120] BENEDICT XVI, Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate (29 June 2009), 67: AAS 101 (2009), 700. [224] Nothing is gained this way and, in the end, everything is lost. In the document, Francis states that the way the COVID-19 pandemic was managed by world countries has shown a failure in global cooperation. I will give everyone the possibility of sharing this planet with me, despite all our differences. Thinking of those who will come after us does not serve electoral purposes, yet it is what authentic justice demands. endobj [274] SAINT PAUL VI, Encyclical Letter Ecclesiam Suam (6 August 1964): AAS 56 (1964), 650. [275], 280. Saint Francis “heard the voice of God, he heard the voice of the poor, he heard the voice of the infirm and he heard the voice of nature. In political activity, we should remember that, “appearances notwithstanding, every person is immensely holy and deserves our love. Some people are born into economically stable families, receive a fine education, grow up well nourished, or naturally possess great talent. 1 Cor 13:1-13). This trust can be built only through dialogue that is truly directed to the common good and not to the protection of veiled or particular interests”. Mt 5:44-46), even if it is quite legitimately demanded by society and its justice system. [9] BENEDICT XVI, Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate (29 June 2009), 19: AAS 101 (2009), 655. The Charter of the United Nations, when observed and applied with transparency and sincerity, is an obligatory reference point of justice and a channel of peace. [32] Homily in Skopje, North Macedonia (7 May 2019): L’Osservatore Romano, 8 May 2019, p. 12. Those who enjoy a surplus of water yet choose to conserve it for the sake of the greater human family have attained a moral stature that allows them to look beyond themselves and the group to which they belong. Charity is at the heart of every healthy and open society, yet today “it is easily dismissed as irrelevant for interpreting and giving direction to moral responsibility”. In the face of many petty forms of politics focused on immediate interests, I would repeat that “true statecraft is manifest when, in difficult times, we uphold high principles and think of the long-term common good. At the same time, though, I have wanted to stress that I have no intention of proposing “a completely enclosed, a-historic, static ‘indigenism’ that would reject any kind of blending (mestizaje)”. In the end, this will impoverish us all. The Samaritans lived in a region where pagan rites were practised. [93] Regula Pastoralis, III, 21: PL 77, 87. [78] This false universalism ends up depriving the world of its various colours, its beauty and, ultimately, its humanity. [248], 264. Or when, at other times, they seek popularity by appealing to the basest and most selfish inclinations of certain sectors of the population. This means working to create a many-faceted polyhedron whose different sides form a variegated unity, in which “the whole is greater than the part”. The shadows plunge humanity into confusion, loneliness, and desolation. This process, by its intrinsic logic, blocks the kind of serene reflection that could lead us to a shared wisdom. [44], 41. [168] This means acknowledging that “love, overflowing with small gestures of mutual care, is also civic and political, and it makes itself felt in every action that seeks to build a better world”. [27] This panorama, for all its undeniable advances, does not appear to lead to a more humane future. The Church esteems the ways in which God works in other religions, and “rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions. This means that “everyone has a fundamental role to play in a single great creative project: to write a new page of history, a page full of hope, peace and reconciliation”. [63] Gabriel Marcel, Du refus à l’invocation, ed. 3 0 obj We think of “the firm conviction of the founders of the European Union, who envisioned a future based on the capacity to work together in bridging divisions and in fostering peace and fellowship between all the peoples of this continent”. This is the finest help we can give to the poor, the best path to a life of dignity. Conversations revolve only around the latest data; they become merely horizontal and cumulative. ibid. [94] Saint John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus (1 May 1991), 31: AAS 83 (1991), 831. Other cultures are not “enemies” from which we need to protect ourselves, but differing reflections of the inexhaustible richness of human life. We gorged ourselves on networking, and lost the taste of fraternity. I do not want to speak of divine retribution, nor would it be sufficient to say that the harm we do to nature is itself the punishment for our offences. We can aspire to a world that provides land, housing and work for all. [228] PIUS XI, Encyclical Letter Quadragesimo Anno (15 May 1931): AAS 23 (1931), 213. I have only to think of what our world would be like without the patient dialogue of the many generous persons who keep families and communities together. There are two extreme situations that may come to be seen as solutions in especially dramatic circumstances, without realizing that they are false answers that do not resolve the problems they are meant to solve and ultimately do no more than introduce new elements of destruction in the fabric of national and global society. In the case of personal encounters, including those involving a distant or forgotten brother or sister, it can do so by employing all the resources that the institutions of an organized, free and creative society are capable of generating. 251. 2. In recent decades, every single war has been ostensibly “justified”. 286. This is a non-negotiable truth attained by the use of reason and accepted in conscience. Planeta, Buenos Aires, 2017, 105. Such is the magnitude of these situations, and their toll in innocent lives, that we must avoid every temptation to fall into a declarationist nominalism that would assuage our consciences. 67. [261], 273. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. [255] This has made all the more dangerous the growing practice in some countries of resorting to preventive custody, imprisonment without trial and especially the death penalty. Yet something similar had long been occurring during heat waves and in other situations: older people found themselves cruelly abandoned. Francis, Encyclical Fratelli Tutti, on fraternity and social friendship, October 3, 2020. 2, resp. We must never grow accustomed or inured to them. In the affluent sectors of many poor countries, and at times in those who have recently emerged from poverty, there is a resistance to native ways of thinking and acting, and a tendency to look down on one’s own cultural identity, as if it were the sole cause of every ill. 52. A realistic and inclusive social covenant must also be a “cultural covenant”, one that respects and acknowledges the different worldviews, cultures and lifestyles that coexist in society. In these pages of reflection on universal fraternity, I felt inspired particularly by Saint Francis of Assisi, but also by others of our brothers and sisters who are not Catholics: Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, Mahatma Gandhi and many more. 200. Who can claim the right to forgive in the name of others? [130] GEORG SIMMEL, Brücke und Tür. At a time when various forms of fundamentalist intolerance are damaging relationships between individuals, groups and peoples, let us be committed to living and teaching the value of respect for others, a love capable of welcoming differences, and the priority of the dignity of every human being over his or her ideas, opinions, practices and even sins. On the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, released the third encyclical letter of his papacy entitled Fratelli Tutti, on fraternity and social friendship. 151. Closed populist groups distort the word “people”, since they are not talking about a true people. 259. God, on the other hand, gives freely, to the point of helping even those who are unfaithful; he “makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good” (Mt 5:45). 36. They need to be remembered, always and ever anew. [109] Ideally, unnecessary migration ought to be avoided; this entails creating in countries of origin the conditions needed for a dignified life and integral development. There is a risk that a single scientific advance will be seen as the only possible lens for viewing a particular aspect of life, society and the world. 118. By Isabella Piro. Approaching, speaking, listening, looking at, coming to know and understand one another, and to find common ground: all these things are summed up in the one word “dialogue”. But this can degenerate into an unhealthy “populism” when individuals are able to exploit politically a people’s culture, under whatever ideological banner, for their own personal advantage or continuing grip on power. There can be a false openness to the universal, born of the shallowness of those lacking insight into the genius of their native land or harbouring unresolved resentment towards their own people. We should not expect everything from those who govern us, for that would be childish. Let us now return to the parable of the Good Samaritan, for it still has much to say to us. “We should never confine others to what they may have said or done, but value them for the promise that they embody”,[212] a promise that always brings with it a spark of new hope. Jesus asks us to be present to those in need of help, regardless of whether or not they belong to our social group. Revenge never truly satisfies victims. In my fraternal meeting, which I gladly recall, with the Grand Imam Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, “we resolutely [declared] that religions must never incite war, hateful attitudes, hostility and extremism, nor must they incite violence or the shedding of blood. It may seem naïve and utopian, yet we cannot renounce this lofty aim. Kindness facilitates the quest for consensus; it opens new paths where hostility and conflict would burn all bridges. CARTA ENCÍCLICA FRATELLI TUTTI DEL SANTO PADRE FRANCISCO SOBRE LA FRATERNIDAD Y LA AMISTAD SOCIAL . [225] Arrival Ceremony, Colombo, Sri Lanka (13 January 2015): L’Osservatore Romano, 14 January 2015, p. 7. 23, a. The attempt to see populism as a key for interpreting social reality is problematic in another way: it disregards the legitimate meaning of the word “people”. 113. 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