Anupama Ranawana, a theologian based at Durham University, shares personal reflections from the CCSTP study day on Fratelli Tutti and reading the signs of the times.
We were delighted to welcome academics, practitioners and students, from across the UK and further afield, to our study and networking day on Friday 13 June.
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.
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.
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.
Francis’ overly dualistic view of exploitation and human relationships prevents him from seeing the good in imperfect arrangements of mutual benefit, argues Edward Hadas.