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RELIGIOUS PUBLISHER AND bookshop chain Veritas says a booklet authored by Pope Francis has been hugely popular with Irish readers — selling some 11,000 copies.
Normally, an ‘apostolic exhortation’ of its kind would sell around 500 copies, a spokesperson for Veritas said.
“Due to the great interest shown in Pope Francis by our customers, we planned for an official print run of three thousand copies – and these sold out almost immediately,” Director of the bookstore chain Maura Hyland said.
“To date Veritas has sold 11,000 copies and Evangelii Gaudium is now on its fourth print-run.”
The text has also appeared several times in the non-fiction category of the Irish best-seller lists in recent months.
“Clearly there exists a huge level of public interest in what Pope Francis is saying and doing,” Hyland said.
An apostolic exhortation is a communication from the Pope that urges people to implement a particular aspect of the Church’s teaching, but does not define Church doctrine.
The Pope is publishing a longer book — a collection of essays and speeches — this summer.
Disappointingly, the hugely popular Pontiff has missed out on a book-naming open goal by declining to opt for the title ‘To Be Frank…’. The new book will be called The Church of Mercy: My Vision for the Church.
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He seems like a fairly decent man, saw a documentary on what he is trying to achieve on corruption in the Vatican and pedos in the church. Good luck with that
He really let it be known from Day 1 he wasnt going to be told what to do by the powers that be in the Vatican. Hope he can clean the place up…
He does seem to have had a change of attitude and mindset since his early days in Argentina.
When I look at him the name Pope Greg
Burke comes to mind . Bet the clerics are buying up the books to make the sales look better than they are . Seems the UN are not convinced of his or the Vaticans approach to clerical child abusers. It seems to me that A lot of People have short memories in this country.
Of all the tasks he’s trying to achieve,surely his toughest is to convince sane people that Catholicism is relevant in today’s society.
@Stephen:
Catholicism today is as relevant as a fish needing a bicyle!
A bike could be handy if trying to escape from those sharks in the Holy See!
At 10.34 this article has 3, 900 views. The pope has sold 11, 000 books. At what point do you draw the line at relevance?
You can download it for free to your phone if you don’t want to buy it in paper form..
That’s ok Ian I don’t read fiction
Wouldn’t pay for something that should be free anyway..
Where does the profit go???
Divided between retailers, publishers and the Vatican, I assume. And I doubt there’ll be much in the way of papal profits. This isn’t exactly a €25 hardcover.
They haven’t gone away you know.
More PR bull from the Magestirium..
What “Man of God” sits on the throne of the Vatican while hundreds of thousands of innocents starve?, does his God not stand for fairness and justice for all people?!?!?!
The Pope is just an ordinary man dressed up in a religious costume.
Pope Francis was elected on 13/03/2013.= 13+13 add the date ..1+3+0+3+2+0+1+3 = 13 at precisely 6 minutes past 7 Italian time 6+7 = 13……He was 76 years old 7+6 = 13…….Total number of 13′s associated with this man = 5……..13 is a number widely associated with the Occult………Pope Francis is another ambassador for Satan just like all his predecessors.
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