Fratelli tutti

​Encyclical Oct 3, 2020
Title translated: all brothers
Selected quotes from Wikipedia
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[Islam]
In the encyclical, Pope Francis states that his February 2019 meeting in Abu Dhabi with Grand Imam of al-Azhar, during which they signed the Document on Human Fraternity, was an inspiration for the document.
[Existentialism]
The notion of “neighbour” elaborated in the document is partly inspired by the interpretation of Paul Ricoeur, whom the pope quotes twice in the encyclical; the pope also quotes one of Ricoeur’s thought leaders, Christian existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel.
[Fernandez]
Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez participated in the encyclical’s redaction.
[Death Penalty/Life Imprisonment]
Pope Francis repeats that the death penalty is “inadmissible” and that “there can be no stepping back from this position”.
He also expresses opposition to life imprisonment, which he calls a “secret death penalty”.
[War]
Francis says that wars can no longer be considered justifiable, as the risks of war exceed any supposed benefits. He believes that “it is very difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries to speak of the possibility of a just war.”
[Just War]
Francis adds that Augustine of Hippo, “who forged a concept of ‘just war’ that we no longer uphold in our own day, also said that ‘it is a higher glory still to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.’”
[Freemasons]
Through its communication organ El Oriente, the Grand Lodge of Spain praises the encyclical, saying that it shows “how far the current Catholic Church is from its former position.”
The Grand Orient of Italy wrote in its official magazine Erasmo to praise the encyclical, saying the “idea of universal brotherhood as a bond that unites all human beings, regardless of their faith, ideology, color, skin, social background, language, culture and nation” expressed in the Fratelli tutti are “close to the ideals that have been the very foundations of Freemasonry from the very beginning.”

He wants to change the Church into a global brotherhood in his own image. When will he become a father again, taking care of us? Never.
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