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A new encyclical is upon us: All brothers is the announced title of a text that emerges on a crest of history marked by a triple world crisis: socioeconomic, ecological and sanitary. And that again – 5 years after the prophetic Praised on the care of the common home – asks us about a change of course and is inspired by the magisterium of Saint Francis, drawing inspiration from his writings. Precisely on the tomb of the saint of Assisi, on October 3, Pope Francis will sign the document on fraternity and social friendship that in the title takes a passage from Banns of the Poverello. And on October 4, the feast of the saint, it will be published.
The Pope has decided to sign it after the Mass that he will celebrate in the Franciscan Basilica, without the presence of the faithful due to Covid. And it is precisely from his reflections on the pandemic, on how to heal the world, repair the common home of human and environmental damage, reduce the consequences of growing social and economic inequality, that the urgency of the new magisterial document seems to emerge. In fact, the choice of dates for the signing and publication also appears significant on the horizon of the Jubilee of the Earth promoted by the ecumenical family for the celebration of the Time of Creation 2020 that ends on October 4, so that the memory is preserved of our interexistence. -relational. Because, as Pope Francis affirmed on September 1 on the World Day for the Care of Creation, “we only exist in relationships: with God the creator, with brothers and sisters as members of a common family and with all creatures. we live in our own home. ” If “everything is related”, and if “we are all in the same boat” – as he recalled on March 27 in Saint Peter’s Square, in the middle of the confinement – the communities of believers must converge “to give life to a world more fair, peaceful and sustainable ”, while continuing to grow“ in the awareness that we all live in a common home as members of the same family ”.
Constantly remembering that we all belong to the same family, that everything is related, means keeping in mind “that the authentic care of our own life and of our relationships with nature is inseparable from brotherhood, justice and fidelity towards others”. Pope Francis has accustomed us and provoked us to universal syntheses. The next encyclical will therefore place fraternity at the center, a human and Christian principle constantly promoted by the Pope, at the center of the historic “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Common Coexistence”, a milestone in the dialogue of the great religions, signed on February 4. 2019 in Abu Dhabi together with Ahmed Al Tayyeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University in Cairo. But brotherhood is also a concept that has to do with global responsibilities of which economic models are the main architecture. And those drawn so far are proving their failure: the pandemic has only accelerated the process, but is by no means the cause. And, therefore, it is significant that the signing of the encyclical also occurs on the horizon of the event desired in Assisi by the Pope – “The Economy of Francis” – and aimed at young people to design a new economy, an initiative of enormous proportions that was to take place. in May but due to the coronavirus it will take place online from November 19 to 21, again from Assisi.
With him, Pope Francis sends to tell the old economic regime that it is no longer the time for the worshipers of finance but for the real economy founded on the person: “This year – he said on September 4, addressing the elite of international finance and politics at the Cernobbio Ambrosetti Forum – the debate on important issues related to society, the economy and innovation requires an extraordinary commitment to respond to the challenges caused or exacerbated by the health, economic and social emergency ”.
Bergoglio’s words are those, repeated many times, about a model of economic development that no longer sacrifices the dignity of man to the idols of finance, stigmatizing the “technocratic paradigm”, the one for which everything is possible in the name of the oligarchy of no-limit and dominion over everything. “From the experience of the pandemic we are all learning that no one is saved alone – the Pope repeated at the economic meeting – we have experienced first-hand the fragility that marks us and unites us. We have better understood that all personal choice falls on the lives of others. Events have forced us to face our mutual belonging, our being brothers in a common home.
And it is precisely “in this situation” that “economics, in its humanistic sense of” the law of the house of the world “, is a privileged field due to its close link with the real and concrete situations of every man and woman. in expression of “care”, which does not exclude but includes, does not mortify but vivifies, does not sacrifice the dignity of man to the idols of finance, does not generate violence and inequality, does not use money to dominate but to serve. Benefit, in fact, consists in a wealth that everyone can access. ”For the Pope, it is therefore about stopping an inhuman rhythm of consumption and production in order to learn to understand nature and reconnect with reality. for which it is essential to train and support the new generations of economists and entrepreneurs: that is why the Pope invited them in November “to the Assisi of young Francis who, stripping himself of everything to choose God as the protagonist of his life, became He was impoverished with the poor and a universal brother. His choice for poverty also gave rise to a vision of the economy that is still very current. Note: “very current” economic vision. Note again: Assisi. The place where the encyclical will be published.
Starting on August 5, Pope Francis inaugurated a series of catechesis on the theme “Healing the world” in the general audiences on Wednesdays, in which he takes up and deepens all these great themes with a look of faith that calls for “a revolution of care “, because” to get out of a pandemic we have to heal and heal each other. “” When the obsession to possess and dominate excludes millions of people from primary goods – Francisco said in the introductory audience -, when economic and technological inequality is such that it tears the social fabric, and when dependence on unlimited material progress threatens the common home, then we cannot stand up and watch. ”And he asked this question:“ So we ask ourselves: how can we help heal our world today? “And again, in the fourth catechesis, on August 26:” The symptoms of inequality reveal a social disease; it is a virus that comes from a sick economy. Put it simply: the economy is sick. She got sick, it is the result of uneven economic growth that ignores fundamental human values. We are all concerned about the social consequences of the pandemic. All. Many want to return to normal and resume their economic activities. Of course, but this “normality” should not include social injustices and the degradation of the environment “on which our health depends.
For the Pope, the time has come to rediscover “social principles that are fundamental” and that “the Church has developed over the centuries, and in the light of the Gospel”, because “they can help us move forward, prepare the future for the one we need “. He himself indicates “the main ones, closely related to each other: the principle of the dignity of the person, the principle of the common good, the principle of the preferential option for the poor, the principle of the universal destination of goods, the principle of solidarity , of subsidiarity, the principle of caring for our common home. These principles help company executives and leaders to promote growth and also, as in this case of a pandemic, to heal the personal and social fabric. All these principles express, in different ways, the virtues of faith, hope and love ”.
Therefore, if the pandemic has further highlighted our interdependence, the Pope tells us that in order to better overcome the crisis we must act together: “And we will do it – he said – in the light of the Gospel, the theological virtues and the tenets of the doctrine of the Church. Together we will explore how our Catholic social tradition can help the human family to heal this world that suffers from serious diseases. It is my desire to reflect and work together, as disciples of Jesus who heals, to build a better world, full of hope for future generations “, to” build a “civilization of love”, as Saint Paul VI liked to say “. Of these catechesis, therefore, the new encyclical seems to show itself in filigree All brothers, that after the Praised it can only mark a leap forward in the wake of the Church’s social doctrine and beyond.
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