The article aims to make a contribution to an intelligent and contextualized reading of the latest Encyclical by Pope Francis „Fratelli Tutti“, demonstrating how it is the culmination of a journey that starts far away, from the Encyclical Letter „Populorum Progressio“ of Paul VI of 1967 which, in turn, it arises from the experience of the peripheral churches, in particular from the experience of the Church in Latin America. In fact, there is a red thread that begins with „Populorum Progressio“ and through eminent documents such as John Paul II’s „Sollecitudo Rei Socialis“ (1987) and Benedict XVI’s „Caritas in Veritate“ (2009), it reaches the „Fratelli Tutti“, thus linking, in the spirit of the hermeneutics of continuity, the social teaching of all post-conciliar Popes. This red thread is the concept of integral human development.
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