“Friendship can change the world”: five books to read that echo the Pope’s words
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Pope Leo XIV emphasized the importance of friendship in his message to young people during the Jubilee. SAMI BELLOUMI / VOIX DU NORD/MAXPPP
Pope Leo XIV's praise of friendship at the closing of the Jubilee of Youth invites us to reconsider the place of this more discreet but fundamental bond in our lives. From fiction to essays, Camille Kouchner, Johanna Cincinatis, Kalindi Ramphul, Hélène Giannecchini, and Yiyun Li explore its many facets.
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I subscribe"Friendship can change the world, it can be the path to peace," concluded Pope Leo XIV in Rome at the end of the Jubilee of Youth. We know this saving friendship from the pens of Montaigne, Romain Gary, Simone de Beauvoir and Alexandre Dumas. Jules Renard liked to mock it by seeing it as nothing more than a "love bird with a docked tail," while Balzac wrote that "what makes friendships indissoluble and doubles their charm is a feeling that love lacks: certainty." Here are five books that examine our friendships differently and imagine other ways of walking through life with them.
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