A Heart Open to the Whole World: Creating a World of Freedom, Love and Forgiveness Based on Fratelli Tutti

The encyclical Fratelli Tutti of Pope Francis urges us to embrace everyone and everything with love, compassion and joy. After introducing the analogy of a mother with open heart, we look concretely at the issue of being warm hearted to the migrants, as Pope Francis has always been. Then we look at the need to embrace the whole world with both our hearts and minds.  We also look at some techniques to do so.  Finally, we argue that being open to God putting our faith in Him necessarily demands being open to the world, in spite of its brokenness and evil, and doing good to other unconditionally, as Fratelli Tutti urges us. The heart open to the world acknowledges the evil in all of us, without justifying it or ignoring it. The evil in all of us, with all its harmful effects, calls for acceptance, forgiveness and reconciliation. We need to do all that we can to eliminate evil and transform its power for love and goodness.