ENCYCLICAL LETTER FRATELLI TUTTI OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ON FRATERNITY AND SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER ONE
DARK CLOUDS OVER A CLOSED WORLD
THE ILLUSION OF COMMUNICATION
42. Is the rise in closed and intolerant attitudes towards others due to the otherwise shrinking or disappearing (to the point that the right to privacy scarcely exists) of distances…???
Third is the constant mantra, “all the priests hate the bishop.”
Bishop Patrick J. Zurek
A person in the Brooklyn borough of New York City attends a birthday vigil for George Floyd Oct. 14, 2020. Floyd was pinned down May 25 and died at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. (CNS photo/Brendan McDermid, Reuters)
many times, i praise those from a “harmless fringe ideology” for giving me secret knowledge of what must happen afterwards, and so“Everything becomes a kind of spectacle to be examined and inspected, and people’s lives are now under constant surveillance” …
Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield, outgoing general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, smiles during a break Nov. 16, 2020, in the bishops’ virtual fall meeting at the USCCB headquarters in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
other times it’s too hard to think about what must happen afterwards, and instead of leaning only on Christ i praise, “Digital communication for bringing everything out into the open; people’s lives are combed over, laid bare and bandied about, often anonymously”…
A child is pictured in an illustration lighting a candle on an Advent wreath at home in Berlin. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, churches in Germany are to publish a flyer on home worship at Christmas. (CNS photo/Jannis Chavakis, KNA)
President-elect Joe Biden receives a national security briefing in Wilmington, Del., Nov. 17, 2020. Biden is the second Catholic to be elected president of the United States. The news media Nov. 7 declared Biden and his vice presidential running mate, Kamala Harris, winners of the Nov. 3 election. (CNS photo/Tom Brenner, Reuters)
some times i dismiss what must happen afterwards as i dismiss, ignore or keep distant, those who feel excluded or worthy of praise, (such as the president-elect) even as i shamelessly peer into every detail of their lives…
Youths from Poland present the World Youth Day cross to young representatives from Panama at the conclusion of Palm Sunday Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in this April 9, 2017, file photo. Young people from Panama will pass the World Youth Day cross to their Portuguese peers Nov. 22 at the end of Pope Francis’ Mass for the feast of Christ the King. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Mass is livestreamed on Facebook by Father Tom Kovatch, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Bloomington, Ind., March 28, 2020, during the pandemic. (CNS photo/Katie Rutter)
Catholics praise the LORD for making us, aware of what must happen afterwards, and therefore won’t allow, “Respect for others to disintegrate” since we are “Called to Missionary Synodality” and “renewal” !!!
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