Article What Francis Means by ‘Fratelli Tutti’ Yes, we should be concerned about the all-male ‘Fratelli tutti.’ But we need a more expansive, charitable view of Francis’s deliberate word choices. By Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández March 12, 2023 Pope Francis Theology Poverty Fratelli tutti
Article Building the Culture of Encounter What must we do to develop a true culture of encounter? By Leo J. O’Donovan September 14, 2022 Pope Francis Synodality Bishops Fratelli tutti
Article Closer Encounters A conference in Rome brings clarity to one of Pope Francis’s more elusive concepts By Paul Elie July 20, 2022 Pope Francis Fratelli tutti Synodality
Article Many and One A living Church must hold two seemingly opposed but equally radiant goods: the local and the universal. By Vinson Cunningham December 14, 2020 Fratelli tutti Pope Francis Race
Article Reconsidering ‘Chisme’ ‘Chisme’ can be a way of speaking publicly for those who feel they lack power or permission. By Neomi De Anda December 8, 2020 Fratelli tutti Pope Francis
Article Radical Truths At a time when politics appeals to the worst in us, ‘Fratelli tutti’ is a beautiful meditation on what life together as a human family can be. By William T. Cavanaugh December 2, 2020 Fratelli tutti Pope Francis
Article Freedom & Equality Aren’t Enough Francis’s latest encyclical exhorts us to realize the fuller lives that we are called to live. By Charles Taylor November 24, 2020 Pope Francis Fratelli tutti
Article Fratelli Tutti A collection of Commonweal’s writing about ‘Fratelli tutti,’ Pope Francis’s most recent papal encyclical, including the symposium from the December 2020 issue. By The Editors November 17, 2020 Pope Francis Social Justice Fratelli tutti
Article Soundtrack to an Encyclical León Gieco’s Argentinian protest anthem might help us understand ‘Fratelli tutti.’ By Susan Bigelow Reynolds October 29, 2020 Pope Francis Latin America Music Fratelli tutti
Article Examining the Encyclical Catholics should read Francis’s new encyclical not just for what it says, but also for how it says it. By Massimo Faggioli October 9, 2020 U.S. Catholicism Pope Francis Religious Life Fratelli tutti
Article Pope Francis’s Call to Fraternity At the core of ‘Fratelli tutti’ is Francis’s conviction that the world is fast losing its sense of the oneness of the human family. By Austen Ivereigh October 4, 2020 Pope Francis Fratelli tutti