The Encyclical “Fratelli Tutti”: A song to fraternity and social friendship.

Abstract

Fraternity and Social Friendship, two realities that surround an immense wealth at this moment in our history, where we find a disoriented, unmotivated, fearful humanity, not only because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but also because of the results of the application of ideologies and methods. social that have sown division, poverty, hopelessness, in a world cornered by inequality and injustice. There are many achievements that have occurred throughout history, but they are not significant for the vast majority of humanity that lives in slavery to poverty, violence, and the non-recognition of human dignity. Pope Francis gives us fresh reflections in his encyclical "Fratelli Tutti", that invite and challenge us to be builders of a new dream of fraternity and social friendship from a universal dimension, in its openness to everyone, that touches the political aspects , economic, social, cultural and religious, and where we can all commit from our beliefs and from where we can "recognize, value and love each person beyond physical proximity, beyond the place in the universe where they were born or where they live " (FT 1).