THE GREAT REFORMER Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope by AUSTEN OVERWEIGH

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Relying on extensive interviews in Argentina, Rome, and elsewhere, as well as years of study of the contemporary Catholic Church, THE GREAT REFORMER tells the story of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the man who went from lower-middle-class child of Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires to spiritual leader of more than a billion Catholics worldwide. This intimate, biography sheds light on a largely untold story: the influence of Argentina’s nationalist movement on Pope Francis and the inspiration provided by early Jesuit missionaries; his radical embrace of a Church for the poor; his visionary but controversial leadership of the Argentine Jesuits; as well as the hair-raising tightrope he walked during the military dictatorship of the 1970s. Paperback.