The future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis

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December 21, 2022 | History

The future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis

Garry Wills, the prizewinning historian, argues that changes have been the evidence of life in the Catholic Church. It has often changed, sometimes with bad consequences, more often with good, good enough to make it perdure. In this brilliant and incisive study, he gives seven examples of deep and serious changes that have taken place (or are taking place) within the last century. None of them was effected by the pope all by himself. As Wills contends, it is only by examining the history of the Church that we can understand Pope Francis's and the Church's challenges, and, as history shows, any changes that meet those challenges will have impact only if the Church, the people of God, support them. In reading the Church's history, Wills considers the lessons Pope Francis seems to have learned. The challenge that Pope Francis offers the Church is its ability to undertake new spiritual adventures, making it a poor church for the poor, after the example of Jesus.

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Viking
Language
English
Pages
263

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Table of Contents

Reading history forward
The coming and going of Latin. Inclusion ; Exclusion ; God's Word under guard ; Pentecosts
The coming and going of monarchy. Church without state : martyrs and passivity ; Church with state : ascetics and resistance ; Church with state : who owns Constantine? ; Church with state : who owns Peter? ; Church as state : who owns the sword? ; Churches and states : who owns the Pope? ; Churches and states : a pluralist world
The coming and going of anti-Semitism. Paul, "a Jew of Jews" ; After the Temple ; After the Holocaust ; The return to Paul
the coming and going of :"natural law." The Pope as sex monitor ; Male god ; "Right to life"
The coming and going of confession. The duty to forgive
The future : a Church of surprises.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
282.09/051201
Library of Congress
BX1378.7 .W55 2015, BX1390

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 263 pages
Number of pages
263

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27175382M
Internet Archive
futureofcatholic0000will
ISBN 10
0525426965
ISBN 13
9780525426967
LCCN
2014038534
OCLC/WorldCat
881888035

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19995272W

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