Title:
To change the church : Pope Francis and the future of Catholicism / Ross Douthat.
Author:
Douthat, Ross Gregory, 1979- author.
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
©2018
Call Number:
BX1378.7 .D68 2018
Abstract:
Many people see Pope Francis using his authority to address global crises, from climate change to the scourge of global poverty. But he has divided his church by seeking changes, especially around marriage, sexuality and divorce, that many Catholics believe are betrayals not only of church teaching but of the words of Jesus Christ himself. Douthat shows how the major debate Francis has opened-- over communion for the divorced and remarried-- divides Catholicism along geographical and cultural lines. Amid populist surges, mass migration, and reawakened extremism, is Francis offering a Christian alternative to the status quo, or trying to reconcile the church to a modern world that's exhausted and corrupt?
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
ISBN:
9781501146923
Physical Description:
xvii, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
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Contents:
The prisoner of the Vatican -- Three stories about Vatican II -- A pope abdicates -- The Bergoglio surprise -- The Francis agenda -- The marriage problem -- To change the church -- His Holiness declines to comment -- Athanasians and Arians -- Jansenists and Jesuits -- The Francis legacy.
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