NEW YORK - A new book from Pope Francis will be for young readers.
‘Dear Pope Francis: The Pope Answers Letters From Children Around the World’ will be published on March 1, the Chicago-based Loyola Press announced on Tuesday.
According to Loyola, a nonprofit Jesuit ministry, the book includes the pope’s responses to 30 handwritten letters from children ages 6 to 13 from around the world.
Themes of the book include “concerns about the afterlife; a strong sense of justice, both social and theological; the importance of family; and a longing to be seen and heard.”
Besides the US, ‘Dear Pope Francis’ also will come out in Italy, Spain, Mexico, Poland, Indonesia, the Philippines and India.
AP