Pursuing his critically acclaimed The Great Reformer, Austen Ivereigh’s colorful, clear-eyed portrait of Pope Francis will take us in the Vatican’s urgent debate over the continuing future of the church in Wounded Shepherd.

This deeply contextual biography centers on the tensions generated by the pope’s try to turn the Church from power and tradition and outwards to activate humanity with God’s mercy. Through battles with corrupt bankers and worldly cardinals, in turbulent meetings and on global in regards to a Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church trips, history’s initial Latin-American pope offers attemptedto reshape the Church to evangelize the contemporary age. At exactly the same time, he has stirred other leaders’ deep-seated fear which the Chapel is definitely capitulating to modernity-leaders who’ve challenged his bid to make a more inviting, attentive institution.

Facing rebellions over his permitting sacraments for the divorced and his try to create a far more ‘ecological’ Catholicism, as well as a firestorm of criticism for the Church’s record on sexual abuse, Francis emerges as a leader of remarkable vision and skill with a relentless spiritual focus-a leader who’s at tranquility in the turmoil encircling him.

With entertaining anecdotes, insider accounts, and expert analysis, Ivereigh’s trip through the key shows of Francis’s reform in Rome as well as the wider Church brings into sharp focus the frustrations and fury, aswell as the joys and successes, of one of the most remarkable pontificates of the contemporary age.