‘We’re addicted to disturbance’: Norway's Bishop Varden on prayer, Norwegian Catholics, and Trappist beer
A Pillar Interview
It’s an overcast Saturday morning in the Norwegian city of Trondheim and Bishop Erik Varden is singing into the telephone. In a loud and tuneful voice, he intones “Benedicamus Domino.”
The 48-year-old Trappist bishop is recalling a passage of music he heard as a child.…