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Faithful to christian tradition, these meditations are interspersed with personal illustrations, anecdotes from saints, and stories of travels to the holy land. In 2017, pope francis appointed father martin as a consultant to the vaticans secretariat for communications. Inspired by the exercises of ignatius of loyola, martin encourages readers to use their imaginations so as to put themselves directly into scenes from the gospels. None of this is clear in his muchdiscussed book in which he only calls for dialogue, but all of this is clear in his public pronouncements including at a recent.
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