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050 14$aBX1378.7$b.D68 2018
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100 1 $aDouthat, Ross Gregory,$d1979-$eauthor.
245 10$aTo change the church :$bPope Francis and the future of Catholicism /$cRoss Douthat.
250 $aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c2018.
300 $axvii, 234 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index.
505 0 $aThe prisoner of the Vatican -- Three stories about Vatican II -- A pope abdicates -- The Bergoglio surprise -- The Francis agenda -- The marriage problem -- To change the church -- His Holiness declines to comment -- Athanasians andArians -- Jansenists and Jesuits -- The Francis legacy.
520 $aMany people see Pope Francis using his authority to address global crises, from climate change to the scourge of global poverty. But he has divided his church by seeking changes, especially around marriage, sexuality and divorce, that many Catholics believe are betrayals not only of church teaching but of the words of Jesus Christ himself. Douthat shows how the major debate Francis has opened-- over communion for the divorced and remarried-- divides Catholicism along geographical and cultural lines. Amid populist surges, mass migration, and reawakened extremism, is Francis offering a Christian alternative to the status quo, or trying to reconcile the church to a modern world that's exhausted and corrupt?.
600 00$aFrancis,$cPope,$d1936-.
650 0$aMarriage$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church.