Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction

The pontiff argues it is dangerous to write off literature as ‘a minor art’ as it offers an antidote to our ‘obsession with screens’ and nurtures human sympathy

By: The Guardian

Aug 17 2024
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Pope Francis says future pries

Pope Francis has said that reading novels and poems is valuable in “one’s path to personal maturity” and should be encouraged in the training of future priests.
Novelists CS Lewis and Marcel Proust as well as poets TS Eliot and Paul Celan were quoted... [3175 chars]