Project overview
This project started in 2021 to bring people together to explore Pope Francis’ encyclical letter, Fratelli Tutti.
Outputs and impacts
We commissioned and published a series of blog articles exploring the various facets of the encyclical, which you can read below.
We hosted an online panel event in January 2021 where a range of experts met 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.
Further information
To find out more about this project and the blog series, please contact Dr Nicolete Burbach.
David Cahill reflects on the significance of Fratelli Tutti for chaplaincy in prisons and afterwards
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.
Francis Stewart accompanies us along the meandering journey of Fratelli Tutti’s social analysis.
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.
Richard Zipfel from the Catholic Association for Racial Justice (CARJ) discusses the imperative towards racial justice in Fratelli Tutti.
Caritas Plymouth’s Deborah Fisher considers Fratelli Tutti’s call to social action.
Fratelli Tutti offers an important corrective to the dangerous aspects of communitarianism, argues Maria Exall.
Francis’ overly dualistic view of exploitation and human relationships prevents him from seeing the good in imperfect arrangements of mutual benefit, argues Edward Hadas.