Fratelli Tutti

Pope Francis established a new Vatican foundation that will promote initiatives based on the principles set out in his encyclical "Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship."

One year after the release of Pope Francis' encyclical Fratelli Tutti, two cardinals discussed the pope's call for greater human fraternity during a Nov. 8-9 conference. One lamented that "solidarity is a word that is not always well received."

Commentary: Pope Francis' encyclical Fratelli Tutti was a call to 'dream together' — while not addressing the ways the church perpetuates inequality. Now, a year later, we need to put solidarity into action.

L'Osservatore Romano has published a very personal reflection on Pope Francis' encyclical Fratelli Tutti by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a self-described feminist writer from Nigeria who has become one the world's most prominent young Anglophone authors.

Commentary: The recent encyclical by Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti, offers a critical step toward the illumination of nonviolence and a just peace moral framework, breaking down the old concept of "just war."

Commentary: Our respective traditions not only teach us to be good and just, but offer us a language that can expand the horizons of what social solidarity can look like as the world grapples with crisis after crisis.

Commentary: In September 2020, as our campus reopened in the midst of a global pandemic, Texas Christian University formally but quietly announced the establishment of a religious holiday policy.

Just Catholic: Fratelli Tutti is written by a man who took the title from a man who was speaking to men, and now this document is addressed to men. Well, why not? It's not women who are ruining the world.

We say: In Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis says it is "very difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries to speak of the possibility of a 'just war.' " The question is what comes next.

Commentary: Fratelli Tutti does not mention "Islam" or "Muslims," but it is part of the broader legacy that Pope Francis will leave the church on Catholic-Muslim relations, as well as interreligious relations more broadly.

The leaders of an international movement seeking to have the Catholic Church formally set aside its long-held teachings on just war theory are praising Pope Francis' new encyclical.

We say: Although antithetical to the rugged individualism upon which the mythology of the United States was built, democratic socialism's concern for the common good is not antithetical to our Christian and Catholic faith.

Watch: NCR Vatican correspondent Joshua J. McElwee talks to columnist Daniel P. Horan and opinion editor Olga Segura about Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis' recently released encyclical on human fraternity and social friendship.

Signs of the Times: Fratelli Tutti, the new papal encyclical on fraternity and social friendship, is an important teaching document that must be read by anyone who wants to know where Pope Francis is coming from.

Commentary: For Pope Francis, the radical mutuality of Ubuntu is achievable through love without borders that transforms humanity into a community of neighbors without borders.

The release of Pope Francis' latest encyclical has been greeted by a number of leading U.S. Catholics as a letter that speaks directly to a deeply polarized church and country.

Commentary: Fratelli Tutti synthesizes much of Pope Francis' social magisterium, proposing a long-overdue conversation about moral obligations within the one human family. Yet, amid this, women are largely absent.

Faith Seeking Understanding: Living like Jesus means prioritizing relationship above all else, and in many ways the Franciscan tradition has, as the pope acknowledged, shaped the focus of this social teaching.

Distinctly Catholic: The moral and anthropological lessons the Holy Father draws in this reflection could scarcely be more relevant to the unique circumstances of the Catholic Church in the United States.

In a lengthy and wide-ranging encyclical letter released Oct. 4, the pontiff says the continuing global health crisis makes it "all the more urgent that we rethink our styles of life."

Francis, the comic strip: Br. Leo and Gabby help Francis out with his upcoming encyclical.

Prominent Catholic women across the globe are continuing to raise objections to the title of Pope Francis' forthcoming new encyclical, "Fratelli tutti," which uses the Italian masculine plural to address the world's population.

Just Catholic: Forget about women in church leadership. Could the Vatican maybe hire a few women editors? The latest embarrassment: "Fratelli tutti," title of the coming papal encyclical, is Italian for "all brothers."

Signs of the Times: I can see the headlines now: "Papal encyclical condemned as sexist." Groan!

Pope Francis will travel to Assisi Oct. 3 to sign an encyclical on the social, political and economic obligations that flow from a belief that all people are children of God and therefore brothers and sisters to one another.