Pope Francis was a great lover of literature: He peppered his homilies, talks and even encyclicals with literary references from Dostoyevsky, Proust, Hopkins, Dante and more, and he also encouraged his flock to read broadly and often.
Perhaps no author’s name has appeared in 'America' more often than Flannery O’Connor’s over the years, from a 1956 editorial through to a story just last week.