Javier Cercas: “Whoever thinks that a Pope can change the Church does not know the Church”: Video | Javier Cercas: “Whoever thinks that a Pope can change the Church does not know the Church” | Culture | EUROtoday

Javier Cercas, author and atheist declared, acquired in May 2023 an sudden proposal of the Vatican: write a ebook about Pope Francis with whole freedom. The outcome was God’s madman on the finish of the worlda hybrid work between chronicle, essay, biography and autobiography, which Cercas offered in a gathering with subscribers on the newspaper of the newspaper, which now you can see on video.

In dialog with the journalist Sergio C. Fanjul, Cercas analyzed the determine of Pope Francis, who died final April: “Whoever thinks that a Pope can change the Church does not know the Church. But he has come to where he has been able to,” he defined. Faced with the questions of the subscribers, the author detailed the one situation he put to undertake the journey: ask the Pope an intimate query that his mom, believer and lately deceased, had at all times needed to reply: Is there an actual chance of reunion amongst family members after demise? “I’m sure I will meet my parents when I die,” he joked.

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