Pope Francis says we are ‘a single family’

What is it that modern civilization most lacks? What are the fundamental deficiencies that ultimately could undermine it? This is mainly the question that Pope Francis wants to answer.

In his latest encyclical Fratelli Tutti – the phrase is from the writings of his namesake St. Francis of Assisi – the pope argues his case that social division, fragmentation and the friction they cause are the primary threats that humankind has to fear.

And the cause is the absence of a sense that human beings all belong to the same family, and hence to one another.

What the world needs is the reali...