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  • The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis

  • By: Garry Wills
  • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
  • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis

By: Garry Wills
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
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New York Times best-selling historian Garry Wills takes on a pressing question in modern religion - will Pope Francis embrace change?

Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope and the first from the Americas, offers a challenge to his church. Can he bring about significant change? Should he?

Garry Wills 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 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 the challenges facing both it and Francis, 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 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.

©2015 Garry Wills (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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A Well Documented and Presented Case for Change

Professor Wills lays a deep foundation for a more inclusive, transparent, and loving Church based on the teaching of Jesus and Paul. He builds his arguments and views with close attention to the historical record and relevant texts. Those arguments and views are presented in an affirmative manner without unnecessary personal attack or diatribe.

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Not even close to Catholic Theology

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The only thing that could have made this a 4-5 start experience would have been writing that is not counter Catholic. Maybe if this book were listed under "Fiction"

Has The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis turned you off from other books in this genre?

Not from the genre, only the author.

Which scene was your favorite?

Nothing. Bad theology and re-written history from the start.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Sadness for the author.

Any additional comments?

This book is written by a "Catholic" that has an agenda that is nowhere close to the teachings of the Catholic Church.

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