''With the encyclical "Fratelli tutti", Pope Francis presents a significant text that is highly topical in many issues of our day and comes at exactly the right time to help shape the debates. I am very grateful that the Pope has raised his voice so clearly to demand and bring in the contribution of the Church, indeed of all religions, to the solution of the current crises that are shaking our world. "- CARDINAL REINHARD MARX, Archbishop of Munich and Freising
"As the title of the teaching letter -" Fratelli tutti. On fraternity and social friendship "- makes clear, Pope Francis is less concerned with a systemic or institutional analysis and solution of the many current crises. Pope Francis wants to shake us up once more and make it clear to us that each and every one of us is jointly responsible for the fate of humanity and the planet. We sit idly by those developments that amount to ignoring, devaluing, degrading and littering fellow human beings with ridicule and hatred, to exploit unrestrainedly. We are currently in the process of disposing of respect and esteem for one another or counteracting those who practice it. The dream of a fraternal world may seem naive to some, but the opposite - a world marked by populism, nationalism, racism, xenophobia, violence and exploitation - is a nightmare that is unfortunately increasingly becoming a reality. Let us be inspired by the Pope's dream! "- LEOPOLD WIMMER, The President of the Catholic Action Austria (KAÖ).
"The message of my brother Pope Francis 'Fratelli tutti' is an extension of the document on human fraternity . It reveals a global reality whose positions and decisions are unstable. It is the vulnerable and marginalized people who pay the price. With his letter about brotherhood and social friendship, Pope Francis expressly addresses all "people of good will and a living conscience . He is thus giving humanity back its conscience. --AL-AZHAR-IMAM AL-TAYYEB, Grand imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar University
''The new papal teaching letter "Fratelli tutti" offers a "vision for the moral renewal of politics and economy - from the local to the global level". The Pope's invitation put forward in the document was "powerful and urgent". The Pope calls for building a common future that really serves the good of the human person . The encyclical makes an important contribution to the social doctrine of the Church and challenges us to overcome the individualism of our culture and to serve our neighbors in love by seeing Jesus Christ in everyone and a society of justice and mercy, of compassion and seek mutual interest .''-- ARCHBISHOP JOSE H. GOMEZ, Chairman of the American Bishops' Conference
''With Fratelli tutti the Pope "put his fingers deep in the wounds of our society. He shows how a social, political and economic rethinking can succeed after the Covid crisis .''-- MICHAEL LANDAU, President Caritas.
