New Vatican newspaper editor: ‘Hope for the new year comes through fraternity’
January 09, 2019
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CWN Editor's Note: “Modernity is the historical era that killed the father (all fathers, both upper and lower-case ‘f’), and it is not by chance that of the greatest ideas of the French Revolution, fraternité is precisely the one most neglected,” Andrea Monda writes. “There is a need for a redemption of fraternity because in the last two centuries the West pressed the accelerator of freedom and equality; but without the fulcrum of fraternity, the result was that of an off-balance, schizophrenic world.”
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