To the surprise of many, on March 13, 2013 the Cardinal College elected Jose Maria Bergoglio as the 266th successor of st. Peter and the first Pope from Latin America. He comes from the multicultural society of Argentina, marked by radical economic inequalities and the exclusion of the poor from social influence. Within the Church, too, the Pope had experienced, distancing of her leadership from those who are on the margins of society. This experience has marked his pastoral work and shaped his understanding of the society and the Church. Corruption, inequality, consumerism, exclusion of the poor and helpless, rejection and exploitation of others, environmental degradation and religious violence the Pope sees as signs of the times and thereby reveals his prophetic ministry. He does not hesitate to denounce the same occurrences within the Church. The way to overcome these obstacles the Pope sees in the fact that all human beings are brothers and sisters because God is our Father. The inviolable dignity of every human person arises from that fact. God is also the Creator of all reality which He restored in Jesus Christ. Francis sees humanity as a single whole with cultural diversities which, for him, are not an obstacle to the unity of the humankind but a real treasure. Presented in this paper, and in accordance with his previous actions, is the culture of encounter which the Pope offers as a solution to the above mentioned obstacles along with pertaining challenges of this culture and ways of its implementation in the Church community and the most important dimensions of the whole humanity. In implementing the culture of encounter the Holy Father starts from the assumption that the Church community and the international institutions need to be reformed. This reformation should enable the institutions to be primarily shaped by the mentality of service rather than government. Instead of being centers of power and privileges for political and religious elites they should become centers of help and encounter for all humanity. Pope Francis does not insist on quick and visible results arising from rapid and authoritative decisions which could in the long term become causes of intolerance and conflict and finds it more important to start the process of reform that would, in the long run and in the next generations, result in the mentality of universal brotherhood.