Pope Francis will travel to Assisi Oct. 3 to sign an encyclical on the social, political and economic obligations that flow from a belief that all people are children of God and therefore brothers and ...

Last week more than 30 bishops and cardinals joined with theologians, journalists and other Catholic leaders at Fordham University for an ecclesial gathering, "Fratelli tutti: Cultivating the Politics ...

The recent encyclical of Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti (FT), is another literary behemoth. Its massive size means that, upon an initial reading, it is not possible to take in all of the specific items ...

The new writing calls on the world to unite in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic uncertainty and political and social turmoil. A special edition of the Vatican newspaper containing the new ...

The encyclical letter Fratelli tutti is about love and attention — the kind of attention and tenderness that brings a broken and bleeding world back to health. It is a social meditation on the Good ...

The late Pope Francis was the least favorite pope of American conservatives. In 2020, when Francis published an encyclical a month before the U.S. election, he seemed to be playing to his part as “the ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, speaks at a press conference for the release of Pope Francis' new encyclical, "Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship," at the Vatican ...