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Rome, October 4, 2020 – The content of Pope Francis’ encyclical is finally known “All brothers” that Bergoglio autographed yesterday (Saturday) in Assisi. This is the third encyclical of the Pontiff and deals with the themes of fraternity and social friendship addressed to “all persons of good will beyond religious convictions”. great ideals and the concrete paths for those who want to build a more just and fraternal world in daily relationships, in society, in politics, in institutions? This is the question that ‘All the brothers’ seeks to answer: the Pope defines it as a “social encyclical” and refers to the teaching of San Francisco: It is no coincidence that Bergoglio trained it in Assisi far from the financial scandals that are shaking the Vatican. In the encyclical Bergoglio reiterates the criticism of populism, nationalisms, racism, xenophobia. And there is also a mention of the pandemic dI Coronavirus (here is today’s Covid newsletter, October 4). Today, at the Angelus, the Pope delivered the encyclical to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
The teaching of St. Francis
The Poverello, Bergoglio writes, “did not wage dialectical war by imposing doctrines, but rather communicated the love of God and was a fruitful father who gave rise to the dream of a fraternal society.” The encyclical aims to promote a worldwide aspiration for brotherhood and social friendship. Starting from the common membership of the human family, to recognize ourselves as brothers because we are children of a Creator, “all in the same boat” and therefore need to become aware that in a globalized and interconnected world “we can only save together”. The inspiring motif, cited by the Pope himself, is precisely the Document on Human Fraternity signed by Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in February 2019.
“A healthy policy”
We need one politics who can say no to “corruption” to “lack of respect for the laws”, to “inefficiency”. Bergoglio has in mind “one solid politics, capable of reforming institutions, coordinating them and equipping them with good practices that allow them to overcome pressures and vicious inertias ”.
What the Pope thinks is a policy centered on human dignity and not subject to financing. “Financial speculation with easy money as its fundamental objective continues to be a success.” Therefore, popular movements take on special importance: “social poets” and “torrents of moral energy”, the Pope writes in a tribute to the movements, hoping to get involved in social, political and economic participation, with greater coordination.
“No to war and the death penalty”
There are two extreme situations that can be presented as solutions in particularly dramatic circumstances, without realizing that they are false answers, that do not solve the problems they are trying to overcome and that ultimately only add new factors of destruction to the social fabric. national and global war and death penalty“Argues Brgoglio:” War is not a ghost of the past, but it has become one minaccia costingis. The world is encountering more and more difficulties in the slow path of peace that it had undertaken and that was beginning to bear fruit, “she says.” The 75 years of the United Nations and the experience of the first 20 years of this millennium showHe-she-itAccording to Pope Francis, “a reform of both the United Nations Organization and the international economic and financial architecture is necessary to give real concretion to the concept of the family of nations.”
As for the death penalty, it has already been tried by John Paul II. The Church will continue to fight for its total disappearance.
The pandemic
In the background, the pandemic of Coronavirus which, Francis writes, “did burst unexpectedly just as I was writing this letter. “But the global health emergency has served to show that”nobody is saved aloneand that the time has come to “dream as a single humanity in which we are all brothers.” Bergoglio again: “Once the health crisis is over, the worst reaction would be to fall further into feverish consumerism and new forms.” of selfish self-protection. May heaven grant that in the end there are no longer “the others.”
“A global tragedy such as the Covid-19 pandemic has for some time raised awareness of being a global community navigating the same boat, where the evil of one is to the detriment of all. We remember that no one is saved alone, that only one can be saved together ”, says the Pope in ‘All the brothers’. To do this, he adds, I said that “the storm unmasks our vulnerability and exposes those false and superfluous certainties with which we have built our agendas, our projects, our habits and priorities. […] With the storm the trap of those stereotypes with which we disguised our ‘egos’ always worried about their own image disappeared; and once again that common belonging (blessed) to which we cannot escape has been discovered: belonging as brothers ”.
“If everything is connected, it is difficult to think that this world disaster is not related to our way of situating ourselves with respect to reality, pretending to be absolute masters of our own life and of everything that exists,” writes the pontiff. And he clarifies: “I don’t want to say that it is a kind divine punishment. Nor would it be enough to say that the damage caused to nature requires in the end the account of our soprus ”. For Francesco “it is reality itself that groans and rebels. The famous verse of the poet Virgilio comes to mind that evokes the cry of human affairs “.
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