Pope: "Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense... [View all]
When we moved to high school in grade 8, we were allowed into the library. A real library. I started burning through books. I could not understand why so many of my classmates didn't do the same. And here we are.
Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.”
Pope:â€Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.†Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.†www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
— Rich Raho (@richraho.bsky.social) 2026-05-14T22:59:43.933Z
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