Pope Francis' latest encyclical "Fratelli Tutti" (Brothers All), a treatise on fraternity and social friendship, comes just when "social distancing" has become a widespread call, in an unfortunate mislabeling of what is better termed "physical distancing." Now, more than ever, the world needs to pull together, not distance from one another and work in isolation, to confront common challenges facing humanity; COVID-19 is only the latest and most urgent example.