A call to serve
Subtitle: Pope Francis and the Catholic future
By: Stefan von Kempis, Philip F. Lawler
Contributors: Lawler, Philip F., author
Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780824550059; 9780824550066; 9780824550073
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Zukunft; Catholic Church; Popes; Election; Katholische Kirche; Biography
Other titles: Pope Francis and the Catholic future
Description: "Two veteran Catholic journalists, one based at the Vatican and the other in the U.S., collaborate to explore the unprecedented papal election of Pope Francis ... [drawn] from conversations, interviews, inside information and the Pope's own writings and talks"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Preface: a grand invitation; title: White smoke over St. Peter's Square : Pope Francis meets a surprised world; title: A bolt from the blue : an historic resignation, and a host of questions; title: Entering the conclave : the inside story; title: The bishop from the ends of the Earth : a Jesuit from Argentina; title: Series of surprises : a new style for the Vatican; title: Challenges : what awaits the one called to build bridges; title: The curriculum vitae of Jorge Bergoglio.