Pope Francis Among the Wolves (eBook)

The Inside Story of a Revolution

Marco Politi (Autor)

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2015
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54008-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Marco Politi has been a leading international expert on Vatican issues for more than forty years. He is a journalist with the newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano and was the Vatican correspondent for La Repubblica. With Carl Bernstein, he wrote the international best-seller His Holiness. His other books include Pope Wojtyla: The Farewell; The Return of God; I, Gay Priest; The Church That Says No; and Joseph Ratzinger: Crisis of a Papacy.
William McCuaig is a translator living in Montreal.

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A behind-the-scenes view of the power struggles within the Vatican and “a look inside the byzantine halls of the institutional Catholic Church.”—Publishers Weekly   A journalist who has long covered the Vatican, Marco Politi takes us deep inside the struggle roiling the Roman Curia and the Catholic Church worldwide, beginning with Benedict XVI, the pope who famously resigned in 2013, and intensifying with the unexpected election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, now known as Pope Francis. Politi’s account balances the perspectives of Pope Francis’s supporters, Benedict’s sympathizers, and those disappointed members of the laity who feel alienated by the institution’s secrecy, financial corruption, and refusal to modernize. Politi dramatically recounts the sexual scandals that have rocked the church and the accusations of money laundering and other financial misdeeds swirling around the Vatican and the Italian Catholic establishment, and how Pope Francis’s attempts to address these crimes has been met with resistance from entrenched factions. He writes of the decline in church attendance and vocations to the priesthood as the church continues to prohibit divorced and remarried Catholics from receiving Communion. He visits European parishes where women perform the functions of missing male priests—and where the remaining parishioners would welcome the ordination of women, if the church would allow it. Pope Francis’s emphasis on pastoral compassion for all who struggle with the burden of family life has also provoked the ire of traditionalists. He knows from experience what life is like for the poor in South America and elsewhere, and highlights the contrast between the vital, vibrant faith of these parishioners and the disillusionment of European Catholics. As Pope Francis and his supporters are locked in battle with the defenders of the traditional hard line and with ecclesiastical corruption, the future of Catholicism is at stake—and it is far from certain Francis will succeed in saving the institution from decline.

Inhalt

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsTranslator's Note1. The Smell of the Sheep2. Francis's Fear3. The Coup d'État of Benedict XVI4. The Secrets of an Anti-Italian Conclave5. The End of the Imperial Church6. The Face of a Parish Priest7. Walking with Unbelievers8. The Hidden Women Priests9. Death in Front of the Vatican10. The Self-Critique of a Pope11. The Program of the Revolution12. St. Peter Had No Bank Account13. The Enemies of Francis14. The War of the Cardinals15. The Italian Knot16. A Resignable PapacyNotesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2015
• Übersetzer: William McCuaig
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54008-6 / 0231540086
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54008-7 / 9780231540087