Here is the second part of the Catholic Herald's recommended reads for this summer that have been put together by some of the Herald’s friends and contributors.
Once again, as with the first instalment, the range of suggestions covers old and new, and all kind of genres. Pope Francis recently noted his fondness for tragedies in a letter he wrote extolling the virtues of reading literature and poems for priestly formation, while also emphasising the relevant import for all Christians.
“I, for my part, love the tragedians because we can all embrace their works as our own, as expressions of our own personal drama,” the Pope writes. “In weeping for the fate of their characters we are essentially weeping for ourselves, for our own emptiness, shortcomings and loneliness.
