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 Fratelli Tutti

Challenges to a world of closed borders

 

The Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice is currently running a three-part project that brings people together to explore Fratelli Tutti. Over the next few months, we will be commissioning and publishing a series of blog articles exploring the various facets of the encyclical – to which this is the introduction.

In January 2021, we will also be hosting an online panel event in which a range of experts will meet to discuss their different angles on the text, rooted in their own research and practice. This will then form the basis for a set of resources that will help a wide range of people to read Fratelli Tutti fruitfully in the context of their life and work, which will be produced in spring, 2021.

You can read the blog series below, as well as access all other content to do with the project.

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If you are an academic or practitioner within a Catholic organisation, and would like to contribute to the blog series, please contact Dr Nicolete Burbach at n.g.burbach@durham.ac.uk for further information.

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Fratelli Tutti: The challenge of Prison Chaplaincy without borders
Fratelli Tutti: The challenge of Prison Chaplaincy without borders

David Cahill reflects on the significance of Fratelli Tutti for chaplaincy in prisons and afterwards

Seeing from a periphery
Seeing from a periphery

Pat Jones, who has just completed a research project on women in the sex trade, argues that “seeing from the peripheries” is a difficult discipline - but nevertheless crucial for addressing violence and abuse against women.

Fratelli Tutti: a change of heart
Fratelli Tutti: a change of heart

Raymond Friel, the incoming CEO of the Caritas Social Action Network, reflects on the social implications of Fratelli Tutti’s call to love and conversion.

Fratelli Tutti: a different kind of social encyclical
Fratelli Tutti: a different kind of social encyclical

Francis Stewart accompanies us along the meandering journey of Fratelli Tutti’s social analysis.

Seeking salvation beneath dark clouds
Seeking salvation beneath dark clouds

How can we understand Fratelli Tutti’s for an ethical response to suffering? The Belgian theologian, Edward Schillebeeckx may be able to help, argues Ross Jesmont.

Fratelli Tutti and the struggle for racial justice
Fratelli Tutti and the struggle for racial justice

Richard Zipfel from the Catholic Association for Racial Justice (CARJ) discusses the imperative towards racial justice in Fratelli Tutti.

Fratelli Tutti and the challenge of a call to social action
Fratelli Tutti and the challenge of a call to social action

Caritas Plymouth’s Deborah Fisher considers Fratelli Tutti’s call to social action.

Fratelli Tutti : universal love and a better kind of politics
Fratelli Tutti : universal love and a better kind of politics

Fratelli Tutti offers an important corrective to the dangerous aspects of communitarianism, argues Maria Exall.

The concept of "exploitation" in Fratelli Tutti
The concept of "exploitation" in Fratelli Tutti

Francis’ overly dualistic view of exploitation and human relationships prevents him from seeing the good in imperfect arrangements of mutual benefit, argues Edward Hadas.

Fratelli Tutti: opening the borders
Fratelli Tutti: opening the borders

An introduction to our Fratelli Tutti project