The Encyclical on Fraternity and Social Friendship
Part of the Theology series:
- A Theology of Dao
- A Church of the Poor
- Catholic Social Thought
- Do Not Stifle the Spirit
- The Joy of Religious Pluralism
- The Future of Interreligious Dialogue
- The Problem of Wealth
- Essential Catholic Social Thought
- The Unmoored God
- The Holy Spirit and an Evolving Church
- Creation and the Cross
- A Poor and Merciful Church
- The Catholic Ethicist in the Local Church
- Choosing Peace
- American Catholicism in the 21st Century
- Loneliness
- Virtue and Theological Ethics
- Just Water
- Experiments in Buddhist-Christian Encounter
- Christian Ministry in the Divine Milieu
- Church as Dynamic life-style
- The Election of Pope Francis
- Introduction to Catholic Theological ethics
- You Say You Want A Revolution
- Deep Incarnation
- Abuse and Cover-up
- New Paths for Interreligious Theology
- Christian Ethics
- Faith and Evolution
- Building Bridges in Sarajevo
- The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis
- Marcus Mescher: The Ethics of Encounter
- Doing Theology in an Evolutionary Way
- Fratelli Tutti
- Christian Social Ethics
- Street Homelessness and Catholic Theological Ethics
- Deep Calls to Deep
- Pope Francis
- Breathed into wholeness
- Religious Life for our World
- La Via della Bellezza
- conscience and Catholic education
- Enacting Catholic Social Tradition
- The Authority of the Saints
- The Hidden "God"
- Globalizing Theological Education for an Increasingly Globalized Age
- Thoughts and Dreams of an Old Theologian
As he did in his previous encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis draws again on the spirit of Francis of Assisi, the saint who expressed his brotherhood and friendship with all creatures, and especially those who were poor and abandoned. Here, Francis offers many points that speak to contemporary social issues: the death penalty; the practical limitations of “just war” teaching; the plight of migrants and refugees; and a warning against “building walls” that deny our common humanity. But underneath all these topical issues is a call to discernment and conversion.
