Pope Francis: Hope and Future for a Liberated Church

By Anna De Simone

This book, "Pope Francis: Hope and Future for a Liberated Church" consists of 160 illustrated pages of spiritual advise. It includes Pope Francis' First Encyclical Letter "Lumen Fidei" (August 2013)Jesuit Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now Francis I, was elected in 2013. Who is Bergoglio and how did he come to be elected Pontiff in Rome is what this book tells you. The volume is a honest, clear, uncomplicated but also sound and wide-ranging introduction to the personality, life, career and theological ideas of the newly elected Pope , with photos illustrating the life and career of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. "Love cannot be reduced to an ephemeral emotion. True, it engages our affectivity, but in order to open it to the beloved and thus to blaze a trail leading away from self-centredness and towards another person, in order to build a lasting relationship; love aims at union with the beloved. Here we begin to see how love requires truth. Only to the extent that love is grounded in truth can it endure over time, can it transcend the passing moment and be sufficiently solid to sustain a shared journey. If love is not tied to truth, it falls prey to fickle emotions and cannot stand the test of time. True love, on the other hand, unifies all the elements of our person and becomes a new light pointing the way to a great and fulfilled life. Without truth, love is incapable of establishing a firm bond; it cannot liberate our isolated ego or redeem it from the fleeting moment in order to create life and bear fruit.If love needs truth, truth also needs love. Love and truth are inseparable. Without love, truth becomes cold, impersonal and oppressive for people's day-to-day lives." (Lumen Fidei, by Pope Francis)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492131601
• ISBN13: 9781492131601
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"