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![FREDERICK
You seem much too calm for this situation, Father Jonas. Heaven knows why.
JONAS
It’s not the first time I’ve had guns pointed in my face, Father Frederick. The novelty wears off after a while.
FREDERICK
[sighing]
Of course it does.
~ Dominus Episode 2](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k47q4yv6v3c5jn2coxw3jrg2/bafkreicfgtoxvkyjxbyofazooj4zmpbscau7hwqg5e3cj7odfjh3fuuxb4)
![[distant, almost unintelligible]
Should have cut out her tongue. Stop her goddamn whispering.
-Dominus, Episode 2](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k47q4yv6v3c5jn2coxw3jrg2/bafkreief3kd7q2gk7cvhxiskyjsa2gu65b5i6t7bebgls6pfmqcyqdlpg4)
![[unpleasant whispering layered over the sound of insects]
-Dominus Episode 2](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k47q4yv6v3c5jn2coxw3jrg2/bafkreiej5wrt4pofls74nrl5me6npchwr73ukp3xrhy2npcotvspz2camm)
![Excerpt from the vatican website:
Furthermore, writing is an act of humanity. As the ancient author Terrence observed, “I am a human being, and I do not regard anything human as alien to me” (The Self-Tormentor, I, 1, 25). Literature, then, encompasses the full spectrum of human experience, so much so that Pope Francis highlighted its formative value: “Reading a literary text places us in the position of ‘seeing through the eyes of others’ [C.S. Lewis] thus gaining a breadth of perspective that broadens our humanity. We develop an imaginative empathy that enables us to identify with how others see, experience and respond to reality. Without such empathy, there can be no solidarity, sharing, compassion, or mercy. (Letter on the Role of Literature in Formation, 34).
When you write stories and develop your characters, you identify with them; you grasp their points of view, their emotions, their feelings, their attitudes. This is the great training ground of humanity that you allow your readers to experience, because, in a sense, readers “live” many lives in addition to their own. This helps us to discover different perspectives, to avoid treating our own views as absolute and to piece together, as in a mosaic, the outline of that truth which always transcends us.
Finally, writing concerns God. It may seem a bold claim to make, but several theologians have reflected on and written about the harmony between the art of writing and the revelation of the biblical God. It is the very structure of Revelation that gives us the authority to do so. As Cardinal Radcliffe wrote, “For Christians, nothing human is alien to Christ. Every attempt to grapple with the fundamental questions of our lives — how to love, how to be just, how to be free, how to face suffering and death — helps us to understand Christ, the one who is most human of all.” (T. Radcliffe, Alive in God. A Christian Imagination, London 2019, p. 15).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k47q4yv6v3c5jn2coxw3jrg2/bafkreihfl334hp6t4qsl5fqdz55nxy2h2fkjegjwhn4nvep73ypniv2kx4)
