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2026-06-26
"We need you. We need your imagination, your narrative creativity, and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound."
This is the encouragement Pope Leo XIV expressed on Wednesday to writers from many parts of the world, who have gathered in Rome to mark the centennial of the founding of the Libreria Editrice Vaticana, the Vatican Publishing House, which was established in 1926.
Writing, he noted, is a form of human expression in which a variety of styles and languages serve as teachers and as role models.
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