Moving, passionate, and packed with wisdom, Let Us Dream is at once spiritual guidance for a world in crisis, a personal manifesto for profound social change, and a summons to each person to choose a better future.
· The anti-racist protests over the death of George Floyd, and the toppling of statues and attempts at “purifying” history
· Why Pope Francis thinks women in the crisis have proved better leaders, and why female economists offer a blueprint for the new kind of economy the crisis shows we need
· The origins of the abuse crisis in the Church – and the parallels with the #MeToo movement
· Why change can only come from the margins of society – and a politics centred on fraternity and solidarity
· Polarization in Church and society, and how differences can be made fruitful
· Why the Pope favours a Universal Basic Income, and strong curbs on a neo-liberal market economy to enable access to work and greater equality, and ecological recovery
· The need for a new kind of politics beyond managerialism and populism rooted in service of society and the common good
· Francis’s personal “Covids” – periods of crisis in his life that profoundly changed him
· The origins of the environmental crisis
Austen Ivereigh is a writer, journalist and commentator best known for two highly regarded biographies of Pope Francis: The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope and Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church. Visit him at
https://austeni.org/. He tweets as @austeni.
