"... so Philadelphia, city of brothers, will reign" (The gospel of brotherhood)

In this city:

“Fraternity thus understood overturns the logic of the apocalypse that prevails today; a logic that fights against the world because it believes that this is the opposite of God, that is idol, and therefore to be destroyed as soon as possible to accelerate the end of time. Faced with the abyss of the apocalypse, there are no longer brothers: only apostates or “martyrs” in a race “against” time. We are not militants or apostates, but all brothers.”

Brotherhood and social friendship

We are not militants or apostates, but all brothers.

A brotherhood without borders

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The gaze is therefore global, universal. And so is the breath of the pages of Pope Francis.

This Encyclical could not remain extraneous to the Covid-19 pandemic that broke out unexpectedly. Beyond the various answers given by different countries - the Pope writes -, the inability to act jointly has emerged, despite the fact that we can boast of being hyper-connected. Francis writes: «Heaven grant that in the end there will no longer be 'the others', but only a 'we'» (n. 35).

Religions at the service of fraternity in the world

The Church "with the power of the Risen One, wants to give birth to a new world, where we are all brothers, where there is a place for every waste of our societies, where justice and peace shine" (n. 278).

A call for peace and brotherhood

Among the other references offered in the text, we note that the Pope wished to remember in particular Blessed Charles de Foucauld, who "wanted to be, ultimately," the universal brother".

"... so Philadelphia, city of brothers, will reign"

In this case the gospel of brotherhood.