The Promise of Francis: The Man, the Pope, and the Challenge of Change

by David Willey

Book Overview

With more than four decades of firsthand experience reporting from Vatican City, David Willey explores the religious and personal background of Pope Francis and his ability to fulfill the promises of reform made during the first two years of his papacy. Sex crimes and cover-ups, financial scandal, declining membership, and the unprecedented resignation of its chief executive, Pope Benedict XVI. These were the ingredients of a twenty-first century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476789053
• ISBN13: 9781476789057
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"