When does human fraternity happen?

Fraternity is a state of human relationship created by a common unifying bond which entitles one person to call another his brother or her sister.

In a family, the common bond is blood. In parental adoption, it is the document. In Christianity it is sacramental baptism.

Outside of these three, a human brotherhood or sisterhood, or the state of being a brother or sister, which is what we mean by “human fraternity”, is created by a series of common physical similarities in the internal or external dimension of the human psyche, and recognized and accepted as a human bond that unifies and promotes unity through social friendship, peace and living together.

All these are wisely summarized in the Abu Dhabi Agreement and concludes the Pope’s encyclical Fratelli Tutti with it. I call it The Formula.

It says, “In the name of God and of everything stated thus far, / we / declare the adoption of a culture of dialogue as the path, mutual cooperation as the code of conduct, reciprocal understanding as the method and standard.”