El contexto sociopolítico religioso de la encíclica Fratelli tutti

Abstract

The article analyzes the national and international situation in which Francis promulgated the Encyclical Fratelli tutti, emphasizing both the repercussions within the Catholic Church, as well as its impact on other Christian proposals, the dialogue with Islam (both Sunni and Chiita) and other religious and political proposals from the Middle East. At the Mexican level, I describe the strategies of the local Episcopate to distance itself from the strong criticisms of neoliberalism and clericalism, as well as the conservative sectors of other latitudes, with particular emphasis on the United States and Latin America. I also review the political impact on recent electoral processes. I also mention the frontal criticism of racism, the exclusion of minorities and migrants. Current affairs that have worsened in the Pandemic. The document is an exercise in "history of the present" and I end with a "reading" of the strategies of Francisco in the times "proposed by Braudel.