Meeting Francis Again, Through Carlo Carretto – Dr. Fr. Conrad Pesso, SJ
Meeting Francis Again, Through Carlo Carretto By Dr. Fr. Conrad Pesso, SJ Around fifty years ago, during a period of searching for my own path forward, my sister Svetlana gave me a copy of Carlo Carretto’s Letters from the Desert. At the time, my reading list fluctuated between George Orwell, Somerset Maugham, and St Thérèse of Lisieux, alongside books on law and finance. Yet it was Carretto’s words that gripped me. I returned to that book more than twenty times, finding myself