Politics of Fraternity and Constitutionalism

Chapter V of Pope Francis’s encyclical Fratelli Tutti. On Fraternity and Social Friendship is dedicated to fraternity as a political technique aimed at achieving social friendship, which is capable of constructively and creatively managing conflicts within societies. Democracies that emerged from the two great modern revolutions are essentially based on the combination of freedom and […]

The crisis of liberal democracies

When observing the international political scene today, few things appear as clear as the deeply critical tensions facing Western democracies. The current situation in the United States, one of the oldest and most established democratic systems, serves as evidence of this and should leave us far from reassured about the future of democratic political systems […]