The Solidarity of the Hopeful:
Reflections on literature, politics, and religion from the second installment of the Georgetown Global Dialogues
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Literature, Faith, and Solidarity Amid Global CrisesThe dialogue highlights Pope Francis’ legacy, literary transformation, and community’s role in addressing 21st-century challenges.
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- Georges Bernanos condemned the alliance of church and violence during the Spanish Civil War, embodying a hopeful solidarity in dark times.
- Pope Francis criticized neoliberal globalization as a fragmented war and urged fraternity and social friendship in his 2020 encyclical Fratelli tutti.
- Zadie Smith discusses how local parish efforts in London foster social ties within a divided urban community.
- Tash Aw and Juan Gabriel Vásquez stress literature’s power to connect personal emotions with political and cultural realities.
Literature is often considered merely a form of entertainment, a ‘minor art’ that need not belong to the education of future priests and their preparation for pastoral ministry.— Pope Francis on the role of literature in formation.
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