The first book by Pope Francis
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on December 1936, has been
the Bishop of Rome and 266th Pope of the Catholic Church since the
13th of March 2013. On the 13th of March 2015 he decided to give a
decisive turn to his papacy by announcing the Holy Year of Mercy
that will begin on December 8th 2015 and will end on November 20th
2016.
Andrea Tornielli is a Vatican expert, journalist at the newspaper
La Stampa and runs the website Vatican Insider. He contributes to
many international newspapers and has written many books among
which the first biography of the Pope Francis, Together was
translated into sixteen languages.
Pope Francis's chatty tone, his repeated references to episodes in
his own life and his clear, down-to-earth language, so rarely found
in papal pronouncements, make The Name of God Is Mercy a pleasure
to read.
*The Guardian*
Francis offers the most vivid glimpse yet of this thinking on the
struggles facing the Church in the 21st Century
*Sunday Telegraph*
This gift for teaching - along with his inclusive vision of the
world, and his warm, embracing manner - have been hallmarks of the
pope's whirlwind tenure thus far in the Vatican, and they also
inform his new book, The Name of God Is Mercy
*The New York Times*
What makes his book most moving is the way in which this man,
without disrespecting his own privacy or offering false bromides of
modesty (what Douthat derides as "ostentatious humility"), opens
the sacred space of his conscience to explain how he came to center
his ministry, and now his papacy, around mercy.
*The New Yorker*
Francis speaks succinctly-and with refreshing forthrightness. . . .
He emphasizes moral sincerity over dogma, an understanding of the
complexities of the world and individual experience over rigid
doctrine. . . . The pope has an easy conversational style that
moves effortlessly between folksy sayings and erudite allusions,
between common-sense logic and impassioned philosophical
insights
*Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times*
As he has done throughout his papacy, Pope Francis shows in this
book a compelling way to present God's love anew to a skeptical
world without denying the ancient teachings of faith. But now he is
challenging the entire Church to trek a new way forward
*Time*
Francis enjoys sharing personal stories of God's grace and mercy in
the lives of parishioners from his native Argentina, people he has
known and who have recognized themselves as sinners
*The Washington Post*
Powerful . . . Francis's book signals a plea for a change of
attitude on the part of the faithful and their pastors. . . .
Bishops and priests will talk and quarrel over the text for months,
even years to come. And that, perhaps, is what Francis intends
*Financial Times*
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