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(CNN Spanish) -
"Fratelli tutti" is the title of Pope Francis' new encyclical.
It means "Brothers all", a phrase of Saint Francis, the saint who inspires the pontiff of Argentine origin.
It is a document where he travels around the challenges of the 21st century, with which he tries to remind the world that "we are all in the same boat", and that a more solidary and fraternal global attitude is necessary to face current problems, considering that "radical individualism is the most difficult virus to defeat."
The pope explains that he was writing the text when the covid-19 pandemic broke out, of which he believed that "it exposed our false assurances" and that "it evidenced the inability to act together."
He says that the coronavirus showed that "despite being hyperconnected, there was fragmentation that made it more difficult to solve the problems that affect us all."
In fact, the pontiff addresses throughout the document the challenges that today's society must face.
Regarding social networks, he mentions that their operation can promote “closed circuits” that promote “prejudices and hatreds”, and regarding the arrival of migrants, he affirms that they want to avoid it “both from some populist political regimes” and those that support “approaches liberal economics ”.
It also points out the need to strengthen international institutions, by ensuring that "the economic-financial dimension" tends to predominate over the political one.
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It also tackles the problem of racism or religious grounds, environmental protection, abolition of the death penalty and human trafficking.
“Criminal networks” - the pontiff points out - “skillfully use modern information technologies to deceive young people and children in all parts of the world.
Aberration knows no bounds when subjected to women, then forced to abort.
An abominable act that even goes as far as kidnapping in order to sell his organs.
This makes human trafficking and other current forms of slavery a global problem that needs to be taken seriously by humanity as a whole ”.
A general view shows the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi during the Pope's visit to celebrate Mass at the tomb of Saint Francis in Assisi, on October 3, 2020 and the signing of a new encyclical on human brotherhood entitled “Fratelli Tutti ».
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Regarding the "just war", the one that the Church contemplates as long as some "rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy" exist, he says that it is no longer sustainable.
"We can no longer think of war as a solution, because the risks will probably always be greater than the hypothetical utility attributed to it," he adds.
Francisco refers to the use of nuclear and biological weapons, noting that their development has given the war "a destructive power out of control that affects many innocent civilians."
For this reason, he says that “faced with this reality, today it is very difficult to uphold the rational criteria matured in other centuries to speak of a possible 'just war'.
Never again war! ”.
The text has been written in Spanish and aims to offer a 360-degree analysis of the main dramas of today.
It takes several quotes from a previous document signed in Abu Dhabi in 2019 together with Muslim leaders, the “Document on Human Brotherhood for World Peace and Common Coexistence”.
Francis signed the encyclical on Saturday in Assisi, where Saint Francis was born, and on Sunday it was presented at the Vatican by various officials of the Holy See.
Personalities of other religions also participated virtually, such as the Muslim judge Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel Salam.
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