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Challenges to be accepted
16 April 2021
“If the conviction that all human beings are brothers and sisters is not to remain an abstract idea..., then numerous related issues emerge” (cf. Fratelli Tutti [FT], 128). The first of these challenges is to understand if and why we are brothers and sisters, all. In the face of daily wars, of all forms of hatred, past and present, of terrorism, of individual and collective cruelty, we wonder whether and how one can speak of fraternity; a word that has even given rise to ideological and political misunderstandings, and the 18th century French Revolution itself made it a cornerstone of the “new” era; an era in which we do not disdain violence, racial segregation, colonialism, war and, subsequently, the exploitation of labour, the birth of complex ideologies of domination and supremacy (Nazism, communism and dictatorships from various inspirations).