{"id":82801,"date":"2026-05-08T08:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82801"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:47:24","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-i-urge-everyone-to-read-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-leo-xiv-i-urge-everyone-to-read-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV: \u201cI Urge Everyone To Read Books\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Aleteia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.en.aleteia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Leo-book.jpg?resize=620,350&amp;q=75\" width=\"395\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV marked the centenary of the\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/institutions_connected\/lev\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vatican Publishing House<\/a>\u00a0by offering a\u00a0<strong>warm and timely defense of books<\/strong>\u00a0in an age shaped by speed, screens, and ideological division.<\/p>\n<div class=\"  \">\n<p>\u201cIn the digital age,\u201d he said, \u201cthe physicality of the book reminds us of the role of thought, reflection and study.\u201d Reading, he added, \u201cnourishes the mind\u201d and helps form \u201ca conscious and well-formed critical sense.\u201d For Leo, books are a safeguard <strong>against intellectual laziness and extremism<\/strong>. He urged people to read \u201cas an antidote to closed-mindedness, which is reflected in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1778230044\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Pope Leo XIV: \u201cI Urge Everyone To Read Books\u201d\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: Pope Leo XIV marked the centenary of the\u00a0Vatican Publishing House\u00a0by offering a\u00a0warm and timely defense of books\u00a0in an.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82802,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82801\/revisions\/82802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}