Leo XIV was talking about books at the beginning of May. His Holiness was celebrating 100 years of the foundation of the Vatican publishing service, Libreria Editrice Vaticana. In the course of his remarks, he mentioned: “Reading nourishes the mind; it helps to foster a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guarding us against fundamentalism and ideological shortcuts
“For this reason, I urge everyone to read books, as an antidote to closed-mindedness, which is reflected in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality”.