Just reading the opening paragraphs, this is a guy with personal insight. He reads, he knows about reading, he's felt the double-edged sword of escape vs isolation.

Why was literature bad in the first place? What's changed about that?

Priests are not just competing with their flock's lived-experience reflected in literature they are competing against the screens which have solved boredom. I'm sure they'll get on to that medium next when the time is right, it's not like Game of Thrones is contained to one medium.

do we really need the religion shit here?