We have produced a society and a culture in which it is impossible to say “I am unhappy”. Instead, we say we have “mental health issues”. We think we are ill when, really, we are sad. Enter the late Pope Francis’ final book, I Want You To Be Happy (Hodder & Stoughton, £16.99; Tablet price £15.29). With chapters on happiness as a gift, a pathway, a revolutionary tool for bringing real love into being, it offers the perfect antidote to the world’s – and our personal – ills.
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