Fratelli Tutti

William T. Cavanaugh is director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology and Professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. His areas of specialisation are political theology, economic ethics, and ecclesiology.Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez, OP, is a tenured Professor in the Department of Theology at Boston College and a member of the board of directors of Concilium: International Journal of Theology. He has published twenty-five collective works, over fifty journal articles, and eight books. Ikenna U. Okafor is a Nigerian-born adjunct Professor of Intercultural Theology at the University of Vienna and a pastor in the Archdiocese of Vienna. His research interests include fraternity, intercultural and interreligious relations, and African theology.Daniel Franklin Pilario, CM, is an Associate Professor at St. Vincent School of Theology and Director of research at Adamson University in Manila. His publications focus on theological method, inculturation, political theology, Catholic social teaching, human rights, and ecology.

• ContentsContributorsForeword by Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJIntroduction by William T. Cavanaugh, Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez, OP, Ikenna Ugochukwu Okafor, and Daniel Franklin E. Pilario, CMPart One: Dark Clouds Over a Closed World1: The Real Divides in Africa by Nora K. Nonterah2: Where Are We Going? A Reality Check by Manuel Victor J. Sapitula, CM3: An Unhealthy Society by Francisco de Aquino-Júnior4: In Praise of Complaint by Frederick Christian BauerschmidtPart Two: A Stranger on the Road5: The Good Samaritan as a Model of Fraternal Solidarity by Stan Chu Ilo6: The Use of Luke 10:25-37 in Fratelli Tutti by Ma. Marilou S. Ibita7: Building Hope from a Fallen Humanity: A Latin American Theological Perspective by Cesar Kuzma8: A Biblical Model of Love by Jaime L. WatersPart Three: Envisaging and Engendering an Open World9: The Existential Imperative of Openness to the Other in Africa by John Bosco Kamoga, CSSp10: Radicalizing Love: A Gendered Critique of Malaysia's Management of Migrants and Refugees in the Time of COVID-19 by Sharon A. Bong11: Dreaming a New Humanity: Human-Cosmic Synodality from the Perspective of the Foreigner and the Hidden Exile by Roberto Tomichá-Charupá, OFMConv, and Ernestina López-Bac12: A Call for Openness by Kurt AppelPart Four: A Heart Open to the Whole World13: Four Marks of an Ecclesiology of Migration bu Idara Otu, MSP14: The Challenges of Migration in Asia by Kochurani Abraham15: On the Way to Pluriversal by Cleusa Caldeira16: Living with the Grace of Neighbors: The Promise of Universal Fraternity for Europe by Stephan van ErpPart Five: A Better Kind of Politics17: Reinventing Political Arrangements: A New Starting Point by Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, SJ18: Political Love: Beyond the Good Samaritan Charity by Albert E. Alejo, SJ19: Peoples on the Move: Francis's Political Utopia by Raúl Zibechi20: Fratelli Tutti: A New Political Imagination? by Anna RowlandsPart Six: Dialogue and Friendship in Society21: Dialogue and Encounter for Global Poverty Eradication: Global Justice Perspectives by Charles B. Chilufya, SJ22: The Path of Dialogue, Solitude, and Hope: Voices from Asia by Albertus Bagus Laksana, SJ23: "Searching, We Find Ourselves": Indignation and Radical Empathy in a Suffering Mexico by Carolina Robledo Silvestre24: Why Not "Amiability and a Culture of Encounter" as the Title of Chapter 6? by Neomi De AndaPart Seven: Paths of Renewed Encounter25: Truth, Mercy, Justice, and Peace Meet by Mumbi Kigutha, CPPS26: Conflict, Violence, and Reconciliation by Daniel Franklin E. Pilario, CM27: Paths of Re-Encounter: Forgiveness, Liberation, and Nonviolence in Times of Transitional Justice by Soledad del Villar Tagle28: "There Is No Life on This Side of the Fire": Conflict and Penitential Memory on the Path of Encounter by Kelly S. JohnsonPart Eight: Religions at the Service of Fraternity in Our World29: An Affirmation of God's Universal Paternity and a Repudiation of Religious Persecutions by Ikenna Ugochukwu Okafor30: Pope Francis and Interreligious Dialogue: Reading Chapter 8 of Fratelli Tutti by Felix Wilfred31: To the Whole Inhabited Earth by Carmenmargarita Sánchez de León32: Religions Serving Fraternity: Roots, Trunk, Fruits by Daniel Izuzquiza, SJIndex

This is the first commentary on Pope Francis's encyclical on fraternity and social friendship, but it is hard to imagine it ever being surpassed. Such is the breadth and depth of this extraordinary work that stands as a genuinely worthy companion to an encyclical that powerfully calls us to recognise ourselves as children of the same God.