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The great reformer [sound recording] : Francis and the making of a radical pope / Austen Ivereigh.

by Ivereigh, Austen.

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Macmillan Audio, 2014.

COMPACT DISC 282.092 F819i

Francis, Pope, 1936-

Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Biography.

Jesuits -- Argentina -- Biography.

Popes -- Biography.

Popes -- Election.

9781427244277 (Book on CD)

[sound recording] :

12 compact discs (15.5 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 12 cm.

Read by the author.

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 formidable religions. An expansive and deeply contextual work,this book is about the intersection of faith and politics - the tension between the pope's innovative vision for the Church and the obstacles he faces in an institution still strongly defined by its conservative past. Ivereigh tells the story not only of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the remarkable man whose background and total commitment to the discernment of God's will transformed him into Pope Francis - but the story of why the Catholic Church chose him as their leader. An investigation of Francis's youth growing up in Buenos Aires and the dramatic events during the Perón era that shaped his beliefs; his ongoing conflicts and disillusionment with the ensuing doctrines of an authoritarian and militaristic government in the 1970s; how his Jesuit training in Argentina and Chile gave him a unique understanding and advocacy for a "Church of the Poor"; and his rise from Cardinal to the papacy.

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