Pastoral Care for Loneliness: A New Apostolate
Matthew Fforde
Gracewing, £9.99, 96 pages
This book is the new English edition of Matthew Fforde’s La pastorale della solitudine: Una nuova proposta, which appeared in 2020 in the wake of a worldwide lockdown when loneliness became a real prospect for many people. It does not take the compulsory cessation of social activities to create loneliness, of course. As Pope Francis observed in May that year: “Our time is marked by loneliness and indifference, which generate loneliness and lead to the throwing away of many lives. This is our culture today. Individualism, indifference, which generate loneliness and cause rejection: the throwaway culture.”
