Francis: A Pope for our Time

Francis: A Pope for our Time
Author :
Publisher : Humanix Books
Total Pages : 239
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781630060022
ISBN-13 : 163006002X
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Francis: A Pope for our Time by : Luis Rosales

Download or read book Francis: A Pope for our Time written by Luis Rosales and published by Humanix Books. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic Church has been undoubtedly going through a period of profound crisis. Endless scandals and conspiracies have plagued the Church in recent years, and with resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in February 2013, the Catholic community was left in dire need of direction and spiritual renewal. Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, elected to Saint Peter’s Throne on March 13, 2013, in one of the briefest conclaves in history, represents a rekindled sense of hope for the Church’s 1.2 billion followers. The first Jesuit to occupy the papacy, Pope Francis I is also the first pope ever to hail from the Americas, and has inspired an enormous sense of pride, especially among Latin Americans and his native Argentina. Francis: A Pope for Our Time, The Definitive Biography incisively chronicles Pope Francis’ ancestry, youth, call to faith, humble beginnings with the Society of Jesus, and rise through Argentina’s ecclesiastical ranks, all the way to the Vatican. The book emphasizes His Holiness’ Jesuit background of humility, poverty, and service that stands to reform the Vatican’s long history of lavish excess and removed otherworldly style of leadership. This concise biography also details Jorge Bergoglio’s coming of age during the Peronist years, the challenges he faced throughout Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship, as well as his political stance against the progressive policies of the Kirchners. Known as the “Black Pope” (for his Jesuit garb), the “Pope of the Poor,” and the “Third World Pope,” such monikers exemplify Pope Francis’ original and primary mandate: his pastoral commitment to society’s most underprivileged and disenfranchised. His dedication to interreligious dialogue, accessibility to his community, and rejection of pomp in favor of simplicity promises to bring real-world leadership to a modern Church desperate to emerge from old-world precepts.


Francis: A Pope for our Time Related Books

Pope Francis: Life and Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Elisabetta Pique
Categories: Popes
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-02 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'In Italy, they call him il Papa, which means The FATHER'. Until his unprecedented 2013 election, author and friend Elisabetta Piqu� called him Padre Jorge. H
Pope Francis Among the Wolves
Language: en
Pages: 398
Authors: Marco Politi
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-15 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A behind-the-scenes view of the power struggles within the Vatican and “a look inside the byzantine halls of the institutional Catholic Church.”—Publisher
Francis: A Pope for our Time
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Luis Rosales
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-15 - Publisher: Humanix Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Catholic Church has been undoubtedly going through a period of profound crisis. Endless scandals and conspiracies have plagued the Church in recent years, a
The Great Reformer
Language: en
Pages: 522
Authors: Austen Ivereigh
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-25 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his position to challenge and redirect one of the world's most f
LIFE POPE FRANCIS
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: The Editors of LIFE
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-16 - Publisher: Life

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Pope Francis heralds a new era for the Catholic Church, and all of the pomp and circumstance — and hope — is captured in this commemorative LIFE volume, tha