“The fork, the joke, the window, the ball, the shoebox, the book, the bird, the flower…” (n. 20)
Antipope Francis
Encyclical Letter Dilexit Nos
on the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ
October 24, 2024
The Vatican’s endless text factory has just released another whopper of a document: Jorge Bergoglio (a.k.a. ‘Pope Francis’) has released his fourth (and hopefully final) Encyclical Letter, after Lumen Fidei (2013) and Laudato Si’ (2015), and Fratelli Tutti (2020). It is entitled Dilexit Nos (“He Loved Us”).
In its English version, Dilexit Nos has 27,936 words. It consists of five chapters that include a total of 220 numbered paragraphs, and it has 227 footnotes.… READ MORE