Javier Cercas, writer and atheist declared, received in May 2023 an unexpected proposal of the Vatican: write a book about Pope Francis with total freedom. The result was God’s madman at the end of the worlda hybrid work between chronicle, essay, biography and autobiography, which Cercas presented in a meeting with subscribers at the newspaper of the newspaper, which you can now see on video.
In conversation with, Cercas analyzed the figure of Pope Francis, who died last 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 explained. Faced with the questions of the subscribers, the writer detailed the only condition he put to undertake the trip: ask the Pope an intimate question that his mother, believer and recently deceased, had always wanted to answer: Is there a real possibility of reunion among loved ones after death? “I’m sure I will meet my parents when I die,” he joked.
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