Were you to have asked Pope Francis to name his favorite book, he would probably have said the Bible. Asked for his favorite novel, however, he might have mentioned a dystopian thriller in which the Antichrist is a senator from Vermont.
The Holy Father certainly talked it up during his papacy. “I was deeply struck when I read it,” he wrote in “Hope,” his memoir, published in January. He praised the book as “a prophecy” in one of his earliest papal homilies and recommended it to journalists in 2015: “I advise you to read it.”
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