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Catholic schoolgirls visit mosques, wear hijabs as part of Fratelli Tutti-inspired field tripA Catholic school in Australia shared a picture of students all wearing Islamic head scarves at a mosque for an ‘Interfaith Reflection Day,’ which also included trips to Hindu temples. Catholic girls wearing hijabs in mosqueCatholic schoolgirls in Australia visited two mosques and two Hindu temples as part of a field trip inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti.Tenth grade students at Star of the Sea College in the Melbourne suburb of Gardenvale “explored” the supposed “importance of dialogue, understanding, and human fraternity across religious traditions,” the school...

Italy’s Freemasons Celebrate ‘Fratelli Tutti’ Grand Master: Pope Francis' encyclical reflects Masonic values ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Italy's biggest Masonic lodge is eulogizing Pope Francis' encyclical Fratelli Tutti (All Brothers) as "close to the ideals that have constituted the very foundations of Freemasonry from the very beginning."Fr. Frank Unterhalt with former Pope John Paul II Titled "A Masonic Value," the cover article in the October issue of the Grand Orient lodge's journal Erasmus extols the pope for expressing "apertis verbis" (in explicit words) a "key to universal fraternity" consistent with the doctrine of Freemasonry. Fratelli Tutti has "many similarities with Masonic principles and...