The watered-down religion of human fraternity which some Catholics hope to bring about will be no match for either militant secularism or militant Islam.
'Belonging to these three religious and multi-cultural worlds (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), the figure of Mary is in itself a pressing and constant invitation to intersect and interconnect these same worlds'
Pope Francis congratulated UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Guterres for “all the efforts he has made for peace." Guterres has used the COVID-19 crisis as a means to promote access to abortion worldwide.
The Vatican News website has said in response to the UN declaring February 4th as the International Day of Human Fraternity that Pope Francis' encyclical 'Fratelli tutti' and the ‘Document on Human Fraternity,’ signed by Pope Francis and the grand imam of Al Azhar last year, 'have found a strong echo in the halls and corridors of the United Nations'