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Wounded Shepherd - Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church (Paperback)
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Wounded Shepherd - Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church (Paperback)
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This deeply contextual biography centers on the tensions generated
by the pope's attempt to turn the Church away from power and
tradition and outwards to engage humanity with God's mercy. Through
battles with corrupt bankers and worldly cardinals, in turbulent
meetings and on global trips, history's first Latin-American pope
has attempted to reshape the Church to evangelise the contemporary
age. At the same time, he has stirred other leaders' deep-seated
fear that the Church is capitulating to modernity - leaders who
have challenged his bid to create a more welcoming, attentive
institution. Facing rebellions over his allowing sacraments for the
divorced and his attempt to create a more 'ecological' Catholicism,
as well as a firestorm of criticism for the Church's record on
sexual abuse, Francis emerges as a leader of remarkable vision and
skill with a relentless spiritual focus - a leader who is at peace
in the turmoil surrounding him. With entertaining anecdotes,
insider accounts, and expert analysis, Ivereigh's journey through
the key episodes of Francis's reform in Rome and the wider Church
brings into sharp focus the frustrations and fury, as well as the
joys and successes, of one of the most remarkable pontificates of
the contemporary age.
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