Fraternity is essential to Christianity, Pope tells audience
November 12, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Leo XIV emphasized the theme of universal fraternity in his remarks at his public audience on November 12.
Christ’s Sacrifice “encourages us to invest in goodness,” the Pope said. The Christian is inspired to recognize all men as brothers. Without that sense of fraternity, Pope Leo said, “The ‘other’ is reduced to someone from whom we can take, without ever being truly willing to give, to offer ourselves.”
The sense of fraternity, the Pope continued, is “an essential feature of Christianity.” He recalled that St. Francis of Assisi addressed everyone as “Omnes Fratres,” and Pope Francis set the example, with his encyclical Fratelli Tutti.
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