Discovering Pope Francis

2020 Association of Catholic Publishers third place award in theology2020 Catholic Press Association third place award in Pope Francis booksThe dangerous tendency to reduce theological positions to political ones has always fueled divisions in the Church, and it plagues debates surrounding Pope Franciss teaching today. This collection of essays was born of a landmark international symposium designed to promote theological understanding by contextualizing the thought of Pope Francisfrom his understanding of history to his theology of missionwithin important theological conversations rarely heard in the US Catholic Church. Its contributors demonstrate decisively that Pope Franciss magisterium is the fruit of a profound and distinctive, yet deeply Catholic, intellectual engagement with the theological and ecclesial traditions of the Church.Contributors include: Austen Ivereigh, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Rodrigo Guerra Lopez, Bishop Robert Barron, Massimo Borghesi, Susan K. Wood, SCL, Rocco Buttiglione, Guzmn Carriquiry Lecour, Peter J. Casarella, Brian Y. Lee, Thomas L. Knoebel