Javier Cercas: "Pope Francis is deeply anticlerical"

He considers himself atheistic and anticlerical, so the Spanish writer Javier Cercas was surprised by the commission. To accompany Pope Francis to Mongolia as part of the high pontiff’s courtship to be able to write about the experience. “When they made the proposal to me, I immediately told them, ‘Don’t you know that I’m a dangerous guy?’ But they didn’t even back down. In fact, I had absolute freedom to write what I wanted. Not even what I wan…

The writer and academic was chosen by The Vatican to write about the corridors of the institution, with the license to access all corners. The result is The Mad One of God at the end of the world Read

This is chapter 10 of the new book by Javier Cercas, ‘The madman of God at the end of the world’ (Random House) Posted in ABC Culture In 2010, three years before his ascension to the papacy, Bergoglio declared: “The choice for the poor comes from the first centuries of Christianity. It’s the Gospel itself. If today I read as a sermon the sermons of the first parents of the Church – i.e., iii – on how to treat the poor, they would say that mine i…

The writer Javier Cercas presented this Monday, March 31, at the Cervantes Institute in Madrid, his book 'The Crazy of God at the End of the World' (Random

He publishes The Mad One of God at the end of the world after a trip with Pope Francis to Mongolia.

Is there the resurrection of the flesh and eternal life? This is the question that haunts Javier Cercas (Ibahernando, Cáceres, 1962) because, as a good and loving son, he wants to be able to tell his mother that yes, indeed, when he dies he will be able to be with her husband again. "When my father died my mother said 'I understand that he died, but not that he will not see him again'. Christianity is a rebellion against death, you have to be a …