"Letter to a Priest" (French: Lettre à un religieux) is a letter containing thirty-five "expressions of opinion on matters concerning Catholic faith, dogma and institutions" by the French religious and social philosopher and mystic Simone Weil.
[1][2] Weil: "When I read The Catechism of the Council of Trent, it seems as though I had nothing in common with the religion there set forth.
[...] I am going to enumerate for you a certain number of thoughts which have dwelt in me for years (some of them at least) and which form a barrier between me and the Church.
[4] The letter was addressed to a French priest living in New York, the Dominican Fr.
She was anxious at this time to return to Europe to join the Free French Movement of Charles de Gaulle in London,[5] even wishing to be parachuted into France to aid the French Resistance.